OPINION: Just days into the role, Charles has steadied the ship with thoughtful speeches. Via theroyaleditor.
September 17, 2022, 3:17 PMKing Charles III leaves the Metropolitan Police Service Special Operations Room at the Lambeth headquarters in London, Sept. 17, 2022.With her impeccable sense of timing, the late queen saved the best until last with her tribute to her eldest son, the future King Charles III. Her Majesty spoke, from the heart -- as a mother. Her words about Charles were among the warmest public remarks she ever made about him in public.
King Charles III attends a vigil around the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, lying in state on the catafalque in Westminster Hall, at the Palace of Westminster in London on September 16, 2022.Today he rejoins the Queen Consort on a visit to Wales, the final leg of "Operation Spring Tide," him taking the throne and visiting all the U.K. capitals and their people., 63% of Britons polled said he is holding up well and they backed him.
The prince was quick to point out that his "causes" are all linked and stressed he does not blindingly leap from one subject or concern to another, as some have suggested. Prince Charles's thoughts on architecture and the built environment have long been contentious, but have merit and widespread support among the general public. He believes developers, architects and town and city planners must go back to the drawing board.
But he, like the queen is a man of deep faith. It is what is helping him through the pain of losing his father and now his mother in quick succession. He retreated to his sanctuary in Highgrove, for a period of prayer and reflection away from the public gaze.Successive English monarchs since Henry VIII have all been known by the title Defender of the Faith – Fidei Defensor . It was bestowed on the tyrannical Henry by Pope Leo X on Oct. 11, 1521, because he was a good Roman Catholic.
In 1952, when Queen Elizabeth II ascended the throne on the death of her father, she too, became Defender of the Faith and her coronation confirmed that. It was a very different, more religious and faithful society back then – an Anglican-led Christian society. Many of her subjects still believed that the queen had actually been appointed by God.
He is a practicing Anglican. Indeed, those close to him say it is because he has read and thought so deeply about his own Christian heritage and is firmly rooted in it that he is able to engage with other religions. Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and Prince Charles, Prince of Wales pose outside the Akshardham Temple during a visit to India on Nov. 8, 2013 in Delhi, India.Clearly, our next Supreme Governor of the Church of England plans to do the job a little differently. He has tested the boundaries of his public role by attending Catholic masses, and and the ceremonies of Muslims and Hindus.
It has been made clear to me that Charles will "absolutely" be named as Defender of the Faith when he is crowned king. But he will also demonstrate in his reign that he believes wholeheartedly in the importance of his connecting with all faiths of the subjects he will reign over.
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