What are peoples *gut feelings* about Charles as King?
As in what are you predictions?
I don't think he will abdicate because he would suffer in his mother's honour if he has to. Otherwise he would have convinced her to break protocol and let it go straight to William.
Someone (not a medium or anything just a normal person) said to me the other day she doesn't think William will ever be king. That either there will be a tragedy or a scandal so wild he couldn't possibly be king.
I love hearing people's speculations
While I think the British monarchy should last, I'm not sure its fate is safe in the hands of Charles. His habits of lifelong world-class whinging and now allowing the world to see on camera his private tantrums (throwing things at radios and servants) are not the character we want to see.
The monarch has real challenges and real power to the good -- creating and nurturing a prosperous post-Brexit economic union of the Commonwealth while staving off China's belt and road imperialism in east Africa. (They're building a
massive naval base in Cambodia which gives them much more power in the Indian Ocean providing backup for their incursion into east Africa, which seems, temporarily, to
have fallen apart.) His unwillingness to visit shithole countries while cultivating Arab zillionaires has been noted, and the penchant for receiving cash in duffel bags from said zillionaires, sometimes in exchange for honors and citizenship, is true corruption. Some people think Harry will be addressing it in his book, as he himself sidestepped overtures from one of Charles'zillionaires.
Attempts to persuade the Prince of Wales to pay more attention to Commonwealth countries received a “ghastly British brush-off” for many years, according to a former secretary-general. Don McKinnon was a former New Zealand foreign minister who served as Commonwealth secretary-general from 2000-8.
www.thetimes.co.uk
Charles was way ahead of the game on global warming, and all will be forgiven if he can cajole world leaders into capping emissions and other initiatives. He needs to maintain and increase moral authority to do that. Something he has been very bad at doing, and of which, it seems to me, the on camera tantrums are an ominous and sickening omen.
I think I'm going to have to start praying that his office makes him a better man, for the planet's sake.