M Explained is on the radio in partnership with WNYC and we are part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Brooke Newman, she's a history professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. We've got a book coming out titled the Queen's Silence, the Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery. Our program today was produced by Queen Victoria Chamberlain.
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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