It is exactly as it should be
He is doing what is expected of him as the Queen’s successor – as well as being her son, mourning a much-loved mother For decades, as Prince of Wales, he was– and his “black spider” letters to government ministers. In those days, he defended himself by saying that, when he came to the throne, he would stop his so-called meddling.
And yet that hasn’t stopped his critics – many of the same ones who took against his meddling as Prince of Wales – for keeping a low profile. They have also bashed him for staying quietly at BalmoralThat is exactly as it should be. The King isn’t being a standoffish caretaker-monarch. He is doing what is expected of him as the Queen’s successor – as well as being her son, mourning a much-loved mother.
Even though the official mourning period is over, Charles is reflecting centuries of precedence. He’s nowhere on the scale of Queen Victoria, attacked by some critics as the “Widow of Windsor” as she largely retired from public life after the death of Prince Albert in 1861, aged 42. For the next 40 years, until Queen Victoria died in 1901, she remained in a form of mourning, dressing in black. Charles III can’t live that long but, in any case, he won’t be emulating his great-great-great grandmother in continuing his dignified mourning for much longer.
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