#charles iii

[theroyalsandi]

King Charles III and Queen Camilla have begun the first state visit of the new reign after landing at Berlin Brandenburg Airport | March 29, 2023

[magbeth]

like to charge reblog to cast

[twitterexile]

[useless-englandfacts]

only one thing could possibly make this funnier *glances at king charles*

[genderqueer-klinger]

Short live the King

[princegeorgeofwales]

The Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince George and Princess Charlotte greeting The King and Queen at the Together At Christmas Carol Service tonight  ❤️

@ royalfamilysupporters on Instagram

[aela-targaryen]

now that Charlie boy has become king here are some things you may not know about him:

- he publicly humiliated and treated Diana the Princess of Wales like utter garbage countless times while they were married, in particular this situation in 1993

- tampongate (need I say more)

- his poor treatment of Princes William and Harry during their formative years (saw an opera while William was in surgery, A+ dad behaviour)

- in 2013 he accepted a £1m donation from the family of Osama Bin Laden for one of his charities

- continues to meddle in British politics which is a big fat no-no for royals (but he doesn’t care to listen or be reminded of history, i.e, see Charles I of England), he also really wanted helicopters and kept annoying the PM over it back in 2004-2005

- he was allegedly listed in the Paradise Papers back in 2017, but the royal family denies this

- he was allegedly the one who made racist comments about the potential skin colour of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s son back in 2017 after his youngest son’s engagement, but he continues to deny this

- he and the Duchess of Cornwall openly LAUGHED at Inuit throat singers during a visit to Iqaluit, Canada in 2017 (it’s so abhorrent, as a Canadian this enrages me)

- in 2021 he allegedly offered “cash for honours” in relation to The Prince’s Foundation, by bribing a Saudi billionaire with knighthood and UK citizenship if he donated to his charity

- he actively supports homeopathy treatments instead of researched and effective treatments, and is often criticized as being “anti-science”

- he has a minimum net worth of $27 billion USD as of 2022 from ONE royal estate (that’s right, just from one of their many properties)

[the-spaced-out-ace]

@ King Charles there will never be a funnier time to kick it than now

[williamrikers]

epic rap battles of history: christopher eccleston vs charles iii

[theroyalsandi]

King Charles III and Queen Camilla leave Berlin Brandenburg Airport in Schoenefeld to kickoff their three day visit to Germany | March 29, 2023

[toadlessgirl]

The new king of England better be on the phone with a peruke maker as we speak because I refuse to acknowledge a King Charles whose curls are anything less than luxurious.

[twitterexile]

[starks-hero]

He is the one true king

[europesroyalsjewels]

Amethyst Bouquet Brooch ♕ King Charles III    

[blackswaneuroparedux]

You can make all sorts of solid arguments against a constitutional monarchy - but the point of monarchy is precisely that it is not the fruit of an argument. It is emphatically not an Enlightenment institution. It’s a primordial institution smuggled into a democratic system. It has nothing to do with merit and logic and everything to do with authority and mystery - two deeply human needs our modern world has trouble satisfying without danger.

- Andrew Sullivan

This is the genius of the British monarchy, supremacy exemplified in Elizabeth II and King Charles III. Walter Bagehot was the first to really get to the heart of the matter.

Walter Bagehot, a journalist who would co-found and edit The Economist magazine was one of the greatest Victorians of the 19th Century and he concerned himself with the workings and the reform of the delicate constitutional arrangements between parliament, the House of Lords, and the monarchy as so much is based on custom and unwritten practice.

Walter Bagehot published his classic work, The English Constitution in 1867 but it is the best way to understand the delicate balance of parliament and the monarchy. No one has written a finer work than Bagehot and his book remains the bible for many interested in constitutional matters regarding the monarchy.  In it he argued   that the constitution was divided into two branches. The monarchy   represents the “dignified” branch. Its job is to symbolise the state   through pomp and ceremony. The government - Parliament, the cabinet and   the civil service - represents the “efficient” branch. Its job is to run the country by passing laws and providing public services. He was  right to say that the dignified  branch governs through poetry, and the  efficient branch through prose.

In Bagehot’s view, a politically-inactive monarchy served the best interests  of the United Kingdom; by abstaining from direct rule, the monarch levitated above the political fray of tribal politics (of left and right), and remained a respected personage to whom all subjects could look to as  a guiding light. The monarch was to stay severely neutral and be apolitical. Instead the monarch was to embody in the flesh the core values of a nation. 

There is a tremendous burden tied to that kind of role. When Elizabeth Windsor became queen, she was tasked as a twenty-something with a job that required her to say or do nothing that could be misconstrued, controversial, or even interestingly human - for the rest of her life. King Charles III has taken on that mantle now.

Duty, sacrificial service, and honour....without power. That’s the role of modern royalty.

It’s hard for non-British people to understand how she came to embody the pysche of the nation. The Crown represents something from the ancient past, a logically indefensible but emotionally salient symbol of something called a nation, something that gives its members meaning and happiness. As Bagehot says, it’s an act of imagination.

Some of my non-British friends particularly can’t quite grasp this connection; to them the British royal family functions mainly at best as a different form of celebrity. But to these friends as well as those sincerely opposed to monarchy can and should grasp something else - nations and cultures need people and institutions who transcend politics, which in itself quickly descends into tribalism or worse, authoritarianism.

[aworldofpattern]

Year of the Rabbit postage stamps by Stanley Chow for the Isle of Man Post Office, Lunar New Year 2023.

Stanley Chow is a British artist and illustrator, whose parents emigrated to England from Hong Kong.