Professor Brooke Newman from Virginia Commonwealth University has written a book about the British monarchy. She says monarchies are in many ways symbolic but they exist still because they're seen as non-partisan heads of state. If anything's going to undermine the monarchy, it's going to be this the people within the institution kind of crumbling under the pressure of having to uphold this thousand year old institution.
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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