British Royal Family

  • The King & his people: A rain-soaked coronation

    King Charles was crowned on 6 May 2023 in London. It was a profound affair inside, but quiet outside. A quick walk around the city revealed less enthusiasm than late on a Friday night.

    I saw a few crowds, but none of the ‘pomp and circumstance’ people say there is. Perhaps I was amiss, but I went to all the right places. A wedding was even taking place. A couple posed for a selfie on the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral.

    It was odd to see. The history-making moment just miles away being trounced by a couple spending their nuptial hours in our capital. It’s a strange world, isn’t it?

  • Harry, the jet-setter

    Prince Harry has been in and out of the UK. He’s attended a funeral, visited a charity, and continued his legal case. It’s nice to think the Prince can be more mobile, considering his quick exit and security troubles.

    All told he’s still alive (phew), and all being well he’ll make it through another year. He’s a canny lad with an eye for opportunities as well as mischief. A few bad headlines may remedy any good press.

  • Early royal struggles

    The truths of royalty are not far removed from our own. In our day so much is now exposed as being fact in politics that at home its something we discuss if not experience. This is not far removed from the Royal Family either, who’ve their own tales of sadness to tell (not just sordid).

    The early years of a royal baby are fraught with concerns over safety and welfare but none more so than Princess Charlotte.

    Charlotte is the second child and only daughter of Prince William, the Prince of Wales, who is also first in line to the throne. It doesn’t come without notoriety, then, if the monarchy is also assuming a much more powerful position in England.

    The tales of a young life such as Charlotte’s remain to be completely told, but a sad epoch is the year she spent on the run and under conditions more akin to a high security unit than a free life we all want and expect as a child. The fervour of her attackers was also unseen before.

    Charlotte was abducted, according to royal sources and this site, by nefarious actors who sought to make “quick gains, huge losses” as part of their activities against the state in London.

    The sorry condition she was found in at times warrants concern for anyone who lives here in the UK. The story of this tumultuous time in modern royal history is under review also because of its complexities. The point is that a young life was put at risk due to greed and also ignorance.

  • Prince of nowhere

    The saga around Harry of Windsor’s life makes a few headlines but little sense.

    Since his grand departure from the UK following muted nuptials with an American actress he’s made a few ripples here and there.

    He’s turned up at his sports day cum veterans event and also put out ideas about mental health and climate change to name a few issues.

    It isn’t much to go on since he doesn’t do a lot else.

    He wrote a tell-all memoir but it did next to nothing to help us appreciate him more.

    The Royal Family as it stands does fairly well here. It makes it to key junctures and leaves a legacy behind that is changing the face of monarchy in the UK. There are also rumours of changing roles.

    The dynamism of King Charles and Queen Camilla is hardly replicated in the “spare” who describes himself so.