Charles, 74, will be officially crowned on Saturday. He is the oldest sovereign to ascend the throne in a family line dating back 1,000 years, when he succeeded his hugely popular mother, Queen Elizabeth, after her death last September. She ruled for 70 years.
Since then, while the new king has hinted at future changes to the institution, the one who was known for outspoken environmentalism during his time as Prince of Wales has not continued to express the strong views that some critics believed would have affected the institution.
“I think we’re all quite surprised at how well King Charles has started,” royal author Tina Brown told Reuters.
In recent years, Charles has stated that he understood very well that when he becomes head of state, he will no longer be able to get involved in some of the campaigns he did as heir.
Charles does not enjoy the same support as his widely admired mother, but his public approval ratings are generally positive. An opinion poll last week showed that there are far more people who have a favorable opinion of him than a negative one, although there also appears to be a large segment of indifference – people who had no opinion either way .
“I think he hit the right notes,” Harshan Kumarasingham, senior lecturer in British politics at the University of Edinburgh, told Reuters.
“He didn’t completely abandon everything from his mother’s reign, but he tried to put his own stamp on the monarchy and on Great Britain.”
However, some dark clouds remain for Charles.
Republican sentiment – almost entirely absent in public during Elizabeth’s reign – became visible, with eggs thrown at the king and his wife Camilla during a trip, and small groups of protesters voiced their opposition on other occasions.
Buckingham Palace has supported research into the monarchy’s links to slavery, amid growing demands, not least from some of the 14 kingdoms in which Charles is king, for apologies and reparations.
The Guardian newspaper has published a series of articles raising questions about the opaque nature of institutional and family wealth and finances, an issue that resonates at a time when Britons are facing a cost-of-living crisis.
In January, Charles told the British government that he wanted an expected increase in profits from a £900 million ($1.1 billion) a year wind farm deal for the Crown Estate to go to ” the wider public good’ rather than the royal family.
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