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Charles In Charge: God Save the King with Douglas Murray | GoodFellows: John Cochrane, Niall Ferguson, H. R. McMaster | Hoover Institution

GoodFellows: Conversations from the Hoover Institution

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The Interpretation of King Charles V

I'm going to London shortly after the coronation, my invitation having got lost in the post. One of the things about hereditary monarchy is you never really know. I think there are several different interpretations of King Charles as we now call him. The first is that he's a sort of slightly soggy green doogoda who talks to his plants and goes on about the environment. He has certainly an extremely kind and decent man. It is not the job of course of the monarch to do anything really other than to preside beneficently over the progress of politics.

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