![]() ![]() Nevertheless, King Charles is trying, in his hobbity way, to move with the times. Read: The issue with Meghan Markle’s Vogue issue And as Meghan Markle discovered sometime between her 2019 Vogue guest-edit and her escape to British Columbia the following year, duchesses are poorly placed to talk about equality. Royal visits to the Caribbean are now marked by intense awkwardness over the legacy of slavery and colonialism. The gold coronation coach will trundle through crowds of onlookers squeezed by inflation of up to 80 percent on basic foodstuffs in the past year. Whenever I write about the British royals, I find myself wondering how a family that owes its position to the illegitimate son of a Norman noble invading Sussex in 1066 can credibly claim to be at the vanguard of social change. (Sadly, the new King declined to include a carving often paired with the Green Man, the Sheela Na Gig, a female figure “showing pink,” as they say in the porn industry.) It even features a Green Man, a quasi-mystical symbol of rebirth carved into many English churches. The invitation to the coronation on May 6 is illustrated with a hedgerow border, complete with a bee, a wren, and a garland of oak leaves. Last year, when Queen Elizabeth II died, my former colleague Tom McTague referred to her son and heir as the Hobbit King: “He is far more interested in the benefits of traditional English hedgerows than the great, global glory of Britain.” How right he was. As of a few years ago, the new King was still wearing a pair of shoes he bought in 1971.įrom the December 2022 issue: The petulant king A free tip to anyone lucky enough to be among the 2,000 guests who will be inside Westminster Abbey for the coronation: Don’t wear Shein. The Royal Family loves sustainability, as you might too, if you’d inherited all your sofas. Instead, it springs from an aristocratic sense of merely passing through the world, of being a custodian for the next generation. He has been talking about green issues since the 1970s-he was way ahead of the curve on organic farming-but his environmentalism is very different from the leftist doomer vibes of Extinction Rebellion or Just Stop Oil. Charles’s worldview is hard to describe, because it blends eco-radicalism with deep traditionalism. I hesitate to read too much into a quiche, but you could argue that the “popular oven-baked savoury tart” (thank you, The Times) is a symbol of the new King’s political outlook. The recipe, according to Buckingham Palace, involves “a crisp, light pastry case and delicate flavours of spinach, broad beans and fresh tarragon.” The quiche is simple to make, can be easily adapted for those with allergies, and-much like the Royal Family’s ongoing revenge on Prince Harry-is a dish best served cold. Where his mother had curried chicken for her coronation, an exotic proposition in 1950s Britain, King Charles III now has a ceremonial quiche. One of the stranger aspects of the modern British monarchy is that its special occasions come with an official dish. On Tuesday, May 2, The Atlantic ’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, joined the U.K.-based staff writers Sophie Gilbert and Helen Lewis to talk about the new era of the monarchy and its role both within the United Kingdom and on the international stage. It has been 70 years since the world last witnessed the crowning of a new British monarch. ![]()
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