Brooke Newman is an associate professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University. She says she's not excited about the coronation of King Charles. "We don't need a king, I guess," said one viewer on Into It.
King Charles is struggling to get his subjects to care about the historic coronation this weekend. Professor Brooke Newman explains the complicated road to ditching the monarchy.
This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Serena Solin, Laura Bullard and Matt Collette, engineered by Michael Raphael and Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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