King Charles Has Been a Dull Monarch, Thank God: Max Hastings

Britain’s Queen is a year dead, and her son is passing his first anniversary on the throne. What has astonished his subjects, and maybe disappointed royal-watching bloggers around the world, is how pleasantly uneventful and indeed dull Charles III’s reign has turned out to be.

There have been no public tantrums from the man himself, though I hear informed reports of a few private ones. For decades, as Prince of Wales, the King ploughed his own furrow, sometimes with chaotic consequences, especially when he sought to interfere in political issues. This became most serious, and threatening to his personal credibility, ...