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Charles III has been crowned, but what kind of King will he be?

By Greg Dixon
New Zealand Listener·
17 mins to read

‘This bloody thing. Every. Stinking. Time.”

This was our new King. He was six days into his new job and these were the last six words he uttered before sweeping imperiously from a room at Belfast’s Hillsborough Castle, leaving his wife and his retainers fluttering about like frightened pheasants at a shoot.

If it had been the irascible Henry VIII, he’d have been throwing a wobbly about another queen failing to deliver a male heir. One imagines George III losing

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