Does King Charles III have what it takes to wear the crown? | 60 Minutes Australia
It
does
not make the end of Queen Elizabeth's magnificent reign any less sad, but three days after her death there are already fewer tears and instead more applause and more sincere thanks for her service 70 years on the job not only redefines the idea of devotion to her Duty also ensures that Her Majesty will be remembered as one of the most admired women to ever live Tonight attention turns to her successor The Queen's eldest son Now King
Charles
III has spent nearly his entire life preparing for the mighty role which he has inherited but as tara brown reports many people are already wondering how comfortably the crowd will accommodate him. they think you know you're not doing something very useful and you think you're there then you couldn't be useful it's cruel fate that charles
fate to become king
c could only be realized with the queen's death a birthright awaiting almost all life that promise of service for life I renew to all of you today an inheritance that will always be marked by sadness with the death of a much loved monarch but more heartbreaking
ly the loss of an adored mother, your majesty mommy, above all, the royal family is a family how deeply the loss of the queen is felt by those who knew her best and loved her most i mean i think the whole nation is shocked and very sad and not just as a nation across the world but as family member we are all saddened i mean it is a great great loss to have
reached an extraordinary seventh decade as monarch the death of the queen heralds a great transition at 73 Charles
ascends the throne as the longest-serving heir apparent in British history, but speculation about who he will be as king
has thrown Britain into something of a national identity crisis.![does king charles iii have what it takes to wear the crown 60 minutes australia]()
I think the overwhelming emotion is definitely grief for the queen and myself. i think it's nervous anticipation maybe for
king
charles
reign so what
does
this mean? what
does
the future look like? What
will the reign of the new king
be like? What
will the new king
be like for many observers? the death of queen elizabeth may well signal the death of the monarchy itself ongoing scandal and family feuds are fueling the new republican debate we should have
enough respect and love for australia
and its people our people our australia
n family to say that our head of state should be one of us will king
charles
be more polarizing than popular be the sovereign to save or destroy the king
dom when you said you thought charles
was a risk to the monarchy what
did you mean charles
is a controversial man and also a conservative man his uh life has been haunted by the death of diana and also by his own personality and character he is an olympic winger a man who constantly complains but for his followers and friends king
charles
fits perfectly in the times that we are running i am very excited about him being king
i want him to be our king
of the environment for so long he has supported all kinds of environmental causes long before many other people were interested and now is the most excellent opportunity for you to lead that charge at bucking
ham palace which for 62 years has seen no royal birth your royal highness the baby is born behind these windows the Queen Elizabeth was just a princess when on November 14, 1948 she and Prince Philip welcomed Charles
into the world at the enchanting Wendell Chamois, their newly acquired Sunnydale country home.![does king charles iii have what it takes to wear the crown 60 minutes australia]()
Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip passed a blissful afternoon with the world's most famous baby, the world she came to was not one to sneeze at in a place of extraordinary privilege and care. but in three short years her mother became queen with the shoc
king
death of her father, King
George VI, public service and long separations from her children became a problem. Igger part of the real life here is wishing a very important young gentleman a very happy birthday on his third birthday. It is unfortunate that the mother and father are not here to share it with him, but what
a party they will have
when they get it back.![does king charles iii have what it takes to wear the crown 60 minutes australia]()
It was a childhood that Prince
Charles
would later describe as painful by his loneliness, a pain that only worsened when he was sent to Gordenstein, his father's former boarding school in Scotland, which Charles
compared to a German concentration camp, calling it Colditz in Kilts. together with prince charles
johnny stonebrow i studied there for four years do you think i was a good fit for prince charles
? A lot of people have
said that it probably wasn't the ideal school to send the young prince to and I'm inclined to agree with that and I have
quite a strong memory of the prince walking
around by himself, he wasn't a particularly social person anyway and I think he missed his home and i think he was homesick and i think he was isolated yes cement g isolation, whether it was at mealtime or in the playground, the peers avoided the prince so as not to become the target of bullies themselves who clearly enjoyed having a young royal in their sights.![does king charles iii have what it takes to wear the crown 60 minutes australia]()
I actually saw one incident in particular where he was attacked playing rugby in The scrum and scrums are tough places anyway but I could see his ears being pulled for example and he got hit but the interesting thing it's that he left a strong impression on me, even at that time, he was very stoic. He never complained. he didn't complain he didn't cry he didn't do anything other people might
have
done in the circumstances he just moved on if he absolutely stood up for himself no no he wasn't that kind of person he was quite a kind soul and once you got to know him a little better he actually was a remarkably nice person and certainly didn't fight back and at the time you saw it as a sign of strength or weakness, that's a very interesting question.![does king charles iii have what it takes to wear the crown 60 minutes australia]()
I think I saw it as a sign of strength but it also made him vulnerable and sometimes you wished he would retaliate a little more instead of being so stoic but that's just not his nature, it was in
Australia
where the teenage prince hung out. He felt better understood when he was sent to Geelong's exclusive Wood High School of Grammar for two terms years later, he fondly remembered his time there as the beginning of his love affair with Australia
. Part of my own upbringing took place here in Australia
. frankly it was by far the best part while i was here i got the pommy bits torn off like splinters from an old block when he came back from being in australia
you know he did great and he ended up as gordonston principal and then he left to cambridge so i think in some ways the australia
n experience really helped him and he found himself in australia
.![does king charles iii have what it takes to wear the crown 60 minutes australia]()
It seems
Australia
helped the young prince to find his funny bone and the confidence to share it even in the classroom, but I remember seeing one particular incident when the prince enjoyed the bully show and used to imitate them and suddenly from the back of the class I would hear this voice saying what
time is echols and then the answer would be I don't know eight o'clock. watch and this of course would make us all laugh and that was something a man of humor and deep introspection used to do I think I have
quite a big one here he is very very big in fact a conservationist with quirky tastes a humanitarian who might as well be a thug, how will the prince of contradictions fare as king
for unauthorized biographer tom bower? this latest changing of the guard will see a fundamental change in charles
for a man who has been waiting in the wings for so long how easy or difficult do you think the transition will be for him from prince to king
his challenge is huge i think he will rise to the challenge because he has been preparing for 70 years, this has been his time, now is when he can prove himself.If that is when the
Charles
of history will exist he wants to make sure it lasts forever in all our history books. He is determined to succeed. He has had to lose a lot of time to achieve it. He's not going to ruin it now. charles
was born to be king
destined to follow in his mother's footsteps even as a young man charles
displayed a similar sense of duty in a moving ceremony charles
was sworn in as prince of wales by the queen when he was 20 years old. charles
prince of wales to become his lord a living and earthly adored man, he then impressed and surprised many when he addressed the crowd in welsh after having studied the language for only 6 weeks when he assumed the role of prince of wales charles
se pledged to serve it's a pledge of his second cousin lord ivor mountbatten says charles
has tried to fulfill his whole life you know how deeply he has felt the responsibility of his role i mean the motto actually is i serve ich dain i think and that's the motto on the Prince of Wales s coat of arms and throughout his life, I think when you appreciate that you are going to take on the mantle of royalty, you know that you are a little bit different, so he was very conscious of the fact that he was going to being king
and and he took his responsibilities very seriously in doing so iva believes that charles
has created a perception of himself that is not complete he seems distant but as i know him he certainly is not and in a family environment everyone behave
s very differently from the public perception what
to do you think the difference is between the public person and the private man actually i guess warmth sometimes on tv you cant appreciate the warmth of a person but it is extremely affectionate, the charles
type has also earned a reputation for being eccentric and out of touch according to author tom bower who wrote the unauthorized biography the wayward prince is a terribly self-indulgent man his eating habits his travel habits his extravagance his unwillingness to understand that sometimes it looks a bit ridiculous, his commitment to complementary medicine, where he believed cancer could be cured with coffee enemas, was strange and the admission that he talks to his beloved plants got him labeled as the mad prince, a title that charles
deftly pushed It's funny, just the other day I was asking
about a whole bed of roses an ticked who were forced to listen to my insane ramblings about the meaning of the universe as I sat cross-legged in the lotus position on the gravel driveway in front of them, a more serious passion has been their charity work through the trust of the prince.The Hope Patrol has worked tirelessly to create jobs and a future for the underprivileged and the sick, as his wife Camilla attests, he feels everything inside, which is why he gets nervous. all things done he's pretty impatient huh he wants things done by yesterday as I think everyone who works for him will tell you but hey that's the way he
does
things he's driven by this passion inside of him to really help help, he really means he would like to save the world, but his remarkable efforts have
not been without controversy. The issue with his charities has generated a lot of controversy because funding those charities has always meant raising money from very controversial characters, often criminals but very wealthy and he sold access to himself to get the money to fund his charities, so with everything that charles
has done, on the one hand, well, there's also been a Negative and a bad, it's after one of my rare opportunities to shake things up to throw a proverbial royal brick through the invite. glass plate of pompous professional pride charles
willingness to use his position of power to influence and pressure those in the realm of politics has caused great according to royal historian professor anna whitelock there is certainly a backstory with charles
in which what
was known as the spider letters have
been published due to his rather spidery handwriting that he wrote to the ministers and advocated for certain causes, for which reason over the years there has been some opposition due to the fact that he seemed to be intervening in politics in a way that he really shouldn't have
said there's no constitutional position as prince of wales that would formally prevent him from doing that some people have
accused him of meddling you don't really say but i always wonder what
is meddling i mean i always thought it was motivating but i've always been intrigued if it's meddling to care about slums com Or I did 40 years ago.What
was happening or not? happening there the conditions people lived in if that is meddling i am very proud of it but as a monarch and as a model for the supremely discreet queen elizabeth the new role b i the law brings new restrictions it is a hard line for him to walk because he has been so outspoken on these issues before and he's been political do you think he can keep that in check? Of course, both monarch and constitutional monarch he needs to stay above the fray of politics and I think over the years he has always said that by becoming king
he would put himself in his mother's shoes and fully understand the limitations of his position as a constitutional monkey. the idea somehow that I am to continue in exactly the same way if I am to succeed is complete nonsense because the two situations arecompletely different because, of course, people have
expressed concerns about whether this participation will continue in the same way. its not that stupid i realize its a separate exercise to be sovereign of course uh you know i fully understand how that indestructible plastic should work though there are many i hope like king
charles
continue to tackle the calamity of climate change , a cause to which he has been publicly committed since the 1970s, you must understand the great importance of all these remarkable natural ecosystems are our life support system, but do you think we have
started to turn the corner now we are not yet in the climate change we are running out of time because the necessary measures have
not been taken if that is the problem and I cannot believe that people simply cannot pay attention to the science.They accept it in all other aspects of modern existence. The evidence, but apparently not climate change. I think the environment actually gives you the space to be much more political with a little p if you can defend yourself as an environmental monarch who can speak politically as is required of a constitutional monarch but at the same time speak about
what
is they're getting more and more political and global issues, i think it could really find a space and a voice for itself and in that sense, find a kind of new relevance and a new purpose for the monarchy, we need to put nature back at the center of the equation is he going to be perhaps a more relevant monarch than you expected look i think king
charles
will go out of his way to be incredibly relevant and a man who etches his name in history coming to the throne so late in life charles
will have
much less time than the queen to make his mark but he hasn't wasted the years leading up to this moment i charles
iii the speeches were written long ago the gestures s were planned decades ago and then endlessly refined so what
is happening now is the development of a plan that has been a long time in the making
in deep thought and a lot of work has been done to make sure that when charles
is crown
ed when charles
speaks when charles
travels everything is in sync just to make sure the monarchy is entrenched his reign is undisputed his position in the commonwealth of australia
is secure everything he has has been thought out very carefully, the house of windsor He has survived for a thousand years and your job will be to make sure he survives his life and the lives of his children and grandmother.The children's
King
Charles
may also be the man of the hour, but the repetition of Hollywood's past, for which he was constantly embarrassed by this beautiful woman, is creating a new generation of Princess Diana fans, highly critical of the king
. . It was very interesting to talk to younger people here. um people in their 18's 19's and early 20's who weren't alive when diana was around but because of the netflix drama have
a lot of sympathy for diana i mean they see her as some kind of martyred marilyn monroe type figure with a crown
of Glory and righteousness with a heavier upright face and multiple fruits of good works Queen Elizabeth ruled for 70 years earning the affection and admiration of millions of people around the world Toward the end of her reign Charles
performed more and more royal duties to support to his mother his role and reputation as the king
of shadows gaining new respect it is my sincere wish that one day the prince of wales will carry on the important work started by my father in 194 9 but it is the shadow of the past that threatens with undoing the good work of charles
according to the real history teacher anna whitelock for many people it was the marriage with princess diana that 1981 wedding that was broadcast around the world and e he subsequent very public divorce and then tragic death of diana which really defined his time as prince of wales and for many years he was seen as very unpopular due to the fact that he was criticized for his relationship with princess diana and the fact that he was having an affair with camilla charles
and camilla finally made their relationship official when they married in 2005. despite the controversy over the king
's second cousin lord ivan mountbatten camilla has brought stability to the monarchy having camilla by your side is either an asset or a handicap downside in your opinion oh out of a 100 um upside they get along great they laugh a lot together and so if you have
a happy monarch then hopefully you have
a happy country um so no. it's certainly a plus it's the country fond of camilla i think i mean it had a rocky start clearly the princess of wales was extremely popular but you know someone who marries into the royal family has historically had a very hard time anyone who really thinks about it a bit can understand that you know how to be the prince of wales or the king
as he is now you know it's a hard job and you need to have
someone by your side and she has done a great job and i think as a The result is that he has become well liked and that people really appreciate that he is an exceptional man.They see him as a very serious person, but I would like a lot of people to see the lighter side. Three chairs for the royal party. Outside the family, while Camilla and
Charles
' public opinion has softened somewhat
, all has not been forgiven despite the years and Camilla's hard work has gradually rehabilitated itself over the years and it has been a long process and she is reviled she was described as the rottweiler she was all over the press she really was you know the other woman and she was talked about in the worst way possible but she has been very patient and loyal to prince charles
and has not been forced on herself. she has known her place but it was very interesting to talk to younger people here people in their 18's 19's and early 20's who weren't around when diana was around but because of the netflix drama they have
a lot of sympathy for diana i mean they see her as sort of a martyr marilyn monroe type figure and when i spoke to them you knew they were very critical of prince charles
the reaction has been literally fantastic and i have
never seen so many people around and such kindness and overwhelming from the start. start people wanted to believe in the fairy tale as prince charles
and lady diana spencer admitted in an interview in 1981 talking
about their upcoming wedding, so i can't wait for it all to come.You know that after having a wonderful musical and emotional experience, painfully shy 19-year-old Diana revealed the initial pressure on her to adapt to the spotlight. I guess that's one of the biggest things you'll
have
to adjust to, isn't it? Of course, and Prince Charles
has been a great help to you in that tower of force video. i'm sitting there i'm sure you would anyway it was the wedding the world saw carry charles
paul and the world their union brought magic to the monarchy at which stage to actually go to the cathedral during the service at which stage did you get the idea that it was becoming a huge hit so you could enjoy it enjoy something like that is scary such a long walk alpha begins no i'm just uh cheesy we were married and at that point everyone was saying good luck and i hope that everything is going well and how lucky you are to be engaged to such a lovely lady and omg i was lucky to marry her and we had so many it's amazing what
ladies do when you're backstage two years into their marriage and with william, a nine-month-old baby. in tow, diana and charles
brought their offensive charm to australia
, it may have
been a baptism of fire for diana, but she quickly made her way into the hearts of royalists to be forever remembered as the people's princess when i left australia
i i really felt to be able to achieve something i was so amazed to be able to that um you have
a plastic whale that throws things out of the top little balls i just think australia
ns are wonderful people and very easy to get along with i really like complete fear because it means that you can be pretty blunt again and you know it's pretty funny but it was charles
' lack of candor at home that ruined the marriage before it even started according to author tom bower charle s played the bullseye card wrong from the start, in First, he should never have
married her because he didn't love her, second, they were completely unsuitable, and third, he was quick to show his envy. to get her especially in australia
during that famous visit in the early 80s the kids made it clear in a straightforward way only kids have
that it was the princess they wanted on their side of the road she was so popular and he was jealous That she was getting all the attention and he wasn't the outside world with their two adorable children, the stage was set for War Wales with Diana recording secret briefings for author Andrew Morton about her husband's affair with Camilla.He was terrified. and i said i knew
what
was going on between you and charles
and i just wanted to know that and he said very interesting he told me you have
everything you ever wanted you have
um all the men in the world fall in love with you and you have
two beautiful children what
would you want? So I said that I love my husband. Did you try to be faithful and honorable to your wife when you took the vow of marriage? Yes, absolutely and you were until it broke irretrievably. We both tried. It's a test. relationship um this you know it wasn't just some kind of fling that later didn't translate into a marriage and i think most people would agree you know they are soul mates and camilla was prince charles
love as he was so life and i think you would imagine you know times would have
been decades since diana's death but she has a real powerhouse in popular discourse and i think charles
becoming king
is just going to revive all that discussion really and the memory of diana because of course there will always be the what
ifs and the what
ifs diana hadn't died and if diana had stayed married to charles
we would have
queen diana now and you can imagine the echoes of that will too I'll be around for the next few weeks and it's surprising that that's still around and pervasive, but it is and it's not just about the generations that remember Diana, but also about the younger generations, although e at that time Diana admitted her own infidelity of 25 years. after her death her influence in the palace and among the people remains strong prince of wales and duchess of cornwall so strong that the queen felt the need to let the public know that on her death she wished for camilla as king
charles
wife to receive the title of the queen the carefully planned move was to prevent possible hostility the royal house will continue to monitor i think bucking
ham palace those around charles
are going to be watching and watching very carefully how people react towards he, it's really going to be about the temperature of the public response will be i think it will be a lot about that i mean i think there's no doubt that charles
would want to have
camilla officially by his side and have
his queen crown
ed and, in a way sense, he would draw a line in the past, he would also acknowledge camilla as his wife and for all the work she has done supporting him and the queen lately in the royal family. to and for the monarchy, but they won't want to risk a huge public backlash while the past may still haunt the present.Observers believe
King
Charles
will focus on the future by doing everything possible to fend off a renewed Republican debate in australia
and across the commonwealth you should now be a head of state be an australia
n we are smart enough i was certainly old enough we can take it from here we can take it from here thank you we can take it from here with the queen passing how healthy do you think it is can the monarchy survive the death of the queen it certainly can and i'm sure it will i suppose the obvious question for australia
is whether we should continue to have
the british monarch as our head of state you accept the republicans have
a be this Maybe there's a better chance with King
Charles
and no, you don't know, the Republicans want to try again. , we'll say try again, we'll, we'll keep fighting because I just don't.I think
Australia
ns have
that mindset like many around the world Queensland National Liberal Party MP Jared Blay is mourning the death of Queen Elizabeth. She was a terrible loss and the majesty of her epitomized what
a monarch should be in a constitutional monarchy and she has been an inspiration. to many people around the world she was an inspiration to many women around the world so it is a terrible loss and people will be grieving for a long period of time when her party was in office as a committed monarchist and Queensland Attorney General. at that time, jared gave the solicitors back the queen's council title option and renamed the courts after her majesty with his death, he leads the league of young royalists in a rallying cry against any republican emboldened by the passing of the queen, i look forward to the future of our constitutional monarchy and, like all of you, do everything possible to defend it inQueensland and Australia
and young people from all over Australia
will join us in that fight and the fight is inevitable it will come when it comes I have
no idea but we are up to the challenge and the youth nicknames league is a fighting force of close to 50 000 devotees and it seems they are just as passionate about king
charles
as they were the queen i was two people away from prince charles
and we were like king
charles
or prince charles
by the time he walked by and shook our hands and i remember the conversation we had I had with him and I was so star surprised, he says: oh you know how do you do it?I'm like oh I'm fine thank you
what
kind of king
do you think he'll make charles
? I think he will grow in the role and I think he will be. Wonderful, what
qualities do you think he has that make you judge him wonderful? lousy as a king
i think he's kind i think he's generous courteous uh i've met him a couple of times and i've seen how he treats people it will be very different he's used his role as ex-prince degales to modernize himself and i suspect he'll bring him into his new role as his majesty the king
i first came here to australia
46 years ago the problem for australia
is not whether charles
is a good person because he is the problem is whether we should have
an englishman or a citizen of another country as our head of state and vote yes for our republic in 1999 former prime minister malcolm turnbull then head of the republican movement urged australia
to cut ties with the queen voting yes in the referendum on a republic this is the proudest moment of my life was a campaign to which a slim majority 55 of australia
ns said it wouldn't have
been easier to make that argument at the time of the 1999 referendum if charles
had been on the throne at the time oh right mind well, it would have
been yes, the answer is yes, clearly because the queen has had such an extraordinary reign, uh, a very long reign, universal respect, yes, without a doubt, the argument for change was always more difficult when the queen was on the throne malcolm turnbull and jared blay might be on the same side of politics today but 20 years ago they were on opposite sides of the debate with a 17 year old jared handing out vote no vote cards i was in year 11 in 1999 and i was standing in front of calandra state secondary school which was my my school and i was casting the no republic vote and from there my passion grew in terms of defending the constitutional monarchy that we have
in australia
i think it holds us well te i would like to be the king
of australia
um ok put it this way i i um as i say i have
always had a great affection for australia
and australia
ns and uh i am not all i have
ever tried to do when it comes to aust ralia is trying to help and encourage since her early days in geelong grandma's timber tops i have
to turn the lights off in the bedrooms again and all i got was screams of pommy bastard for trips with mum and dad or flying in the royal flag solo there is an honor guard of 16 lifeguards for business all for pleasure charles
has been a frequent visitor to our shores if there were more of me i could send one of me to australia
and another anywhere else to try and do all the things i would love to do power to do were in 1994 when ray martin spoke to charles
about australia
's growing drive to secede from the crown
, but do you care in some cases?I think it depends on the
Australia
ns. decide how they want it to be, it's not up to me to decide, I mean, for God's sake, things have
changed, I'm enough of a historian to realize that, but let's avoid the insults and unnecessary calls and all that kind of stuff . Because as I said all we care about is helping Australia
, we're not trying to make money from it or hold on to it like a toy, but British author Tom Bower now hopes that Charles
is king
. his position has changed dramatically and he worked very hard to maintain the ties between the two nations.It should not be underestimated how intriguing
Charles
is and how attentive he is to upholding his legacy. He will not want to be the king
overseeing the breakup of the commonwealth or the monarchy. did everything possible to maintain the australia
n connection let's talk about australia
's next head of state in our current system even before the queen died the australia
n republican movement was once again publicly agitating for change announcing a blueprint for how to replace the monarch with our own head of state tom bower believes this has given urgency to the new king
's plans. it's even better william kate of course he will be promoted by the palace as the face of the future uh that will be key uh for the australia
campaign sending kaizen william there with his children maybe to show that bonds are indivisible and cannot be broken i think now that charles
extends the throne william and kate will be absolutely crucial in supporting him and will be very active in the royal royal historian professor anna whitelock believes that while charles
long delayed ascension to the throne may not generate great enthusiasm it is star power of these younger oils what
will keep the community intact not sure people are there yet and i think apathy might be enough to keep charles
the throne for now with people believing and hoping maybe for the future king
william and thinking
that that could represent something different can you see us going to a referendum no anytime soon no and i don't think the republicans want run to a referendum unless they absolutely think they can win it because if they hold a referendum again and fail, hopefully it will be put in the long grass for many, many years and never have
the debate again Australia
will not become a republic on January 1 frustrates you?I see it, I wouldn't say that it frustrates me, it disappoints me, but I said in 1999 that if we if we vote no, it will mean no for a long time in the performance of these duties, I will be guided by the advice of your elected parliaments, but I think the Next time, uh, it's now because clearly it's a big change of circumstances that can't get that it's a big change of circumstances, but is it a big deal for most
Australia
ns? Well, again, time will tell. extraordinary reign and extraordinary service from an extraordinary woman, so, I think there's going to be a period of reflection and focus on that, and then I think Australia
ns will say, okay, they know the queen is dead, the king
lived long but do we really want to have
british monarch a british aristocrat as our head of state as beloved as the queen was there is no doubt charles
has inherited a monarchy tainted by scandal and discord while affairs abroad can be problematic are the problems at home that pose the greatest risk he will ensure that those who in any way undermine the credibility, honesty and image of the monarchy are expelled, he will be ruthless in that, at just four years old, Carlos was with her mother when at her coronation she was first introduced to the world as the young Queen of Great Britain. these years later, he was with her again when she made what
would be her last appearance on the palace balcony, sadly, it is due to the death of your mother, of your parents, which is not so pleasant, to say the least. , he is a fate tinged with sadness but waiting almost all his life to fulfill it charles
is perhaps the most prepared monarch great britain has ever had and i had the most terrible problem to maintain what
you know he had in queen elizabeth he certainly had a extraordinary guide the bond between master and apprentice between mother and son growing stronger as the years passed your majesty mommy this double act comfortably at peace with each other and if i may your majesty thank god the timing turned out well but Now that King
Charles
will be alone facing the controversies that threw Paul into the last years of Queen Elizabeth's reign, the disgraced Prince Andrew stripped of his titles by the Queen earlier this year will not get a second chance from his brother according to unauthorized biographer and investigative journalist tom bower along with sexual abuse allegations the prince settled for an undisclosed sum the friendship forged between the prince and pedophile jeffrey epstein while alive is considered an immovable stain charles
made it absolutely clear that andrew is out andrew has destroyed his own reputation charles
has always disliked andrew's ex-wife fergie the duchess of york hates vulgarity hates ostentation harry's decision and megan to part with the royal family and continue to publicly criticize the monarchy and charles
is a more painful dilemma for the new king
i thought my family would help but everyone asks Request for warning What
ever it is you just got total silence or neglect total.The family divide is heartbrea
king
when you remember how close father and son seemed. Can you see a future role for Prince Harry? I think prince harry like prince andrew he has chosen himself in the dark i think he is very happy now in california he has dug his own grave or built his own mountain any way you look at it um i think the british though they loved harry and he was by far the most popular of the royals the family has been extraordinarily disillusioned by his criticism of both the royal family and his father his grandmother and for their antics oh please so both harry and andrew will be taken off the air.Removed from the history of the British royal family, do you expect
King
Charles
to be as popular as Queen Elizabeth? well, you know that a change is always difficult, right? and nobody likes change but i suspect that charles
king
charles
will become extremely popular as time goes on lord ivor mountbatten the king
's second cousin believes that charles
eventual popularity will be born out of respect as a man who, even as Prince of Wales, he was prepared to make difficult decisions that directly affected the family, such as minimizing the size of the monarchy by the public. The perception, particularly after the deaths of the Princes of Wales, was that there were too many hangers-on and that the monarchy I didn't really need to lose weight so the whole family in general and cousins like me my brother and all our cousins you know were kind of sidelined which is absolutely the right thing to do I solemnly promise to do as king
waiting for the last 70 years Charles
's ascension to the throne may not offer a fresh start nor may he ever win the public devotion bestowed on the Queen that the flights of the angels sing to you to your rest but passionate about the environment and the underprivileged may be a surprise sovereign bringing modernity and relevance to the monarchy charles
is a highly intelligent and educated man who has many flaws but his determination to make sure the molecule survive i think you're there and you can do it of course you can do it you're determined to succeed you've had to wait a long time to make it you're not going to screw it up now hi yo . m tara brown thanks for watching 60 minutes
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