The people’s King?

example in this country is rarely ever extreme and can usually be predicted far enough in advance that it hardly causes a loss of life. This is just one example of why it might not be necessary but it is also true that we can never be truly grateful for something until we really need it.

Lisette Reed, gives her take on the monarchy and the controversial issues surrrounding the royal family...

REFLECTING on the recent Coronation of King Charles III, many members of the public flew their flags and pledged allegiance to King Charles III. However, with the UK currently undergoing a cost-of-living crisis, a housing crisis and an abundance of strikes from underpaid workers, the whole concept of the coronation, with its intense grandeur and cost, was more of a spit in the face to the British working and middle class. golden carriage, which now has air-conditioning and powered windows, families of Britian are barely surviving on foodbanks and warm banks. But at least the King was air-conditioned in his hour-long ride of waving!

Whilst the Palace are estimated to have spent £100 million of taxpayer money, with ridiculous refurbishments on an 18th century

Countless royalists celebrate Charles and the rest of the Royal Family for their “acts of service and charity” but why does this charity end when it comes to his own nation? His posing and performative acts of charity appear to be exhausted since he’s inherited the role of King, and whilst he bounces from various castles and palaces, there are people struggling to even rent a one-bedroom flat. If the King is allegedly so generous and sincere, he would be doing at least something to help the cost-of-living crisis in the UK, whether it be donating a sum of his estimated £1.8 billion net worth to the people of Britian or even paying for his own coronation and ensuring that taxpayer money goes back into the NHS, instead of a pompous display of selfimportance built on foundations of colonialism and exploitation.

Though some are in support of the coronation and the Royal Family, there have been many questions over the necessity of one. In 2023, it is an incredibly medieval idea to still have a family of British figures, who have all inherited or married into their positions, regardless of whether they deserve it or not. With an adulterer as our monarch and the “Royal Side Chick” Camilla who has been upgraded to the title of Queen, instead of Queen

Consort, it brings in an abundance of questions surrounding the necessity to celebrate a nepotism family, who abuse their powers. Moreover, it is incredibly out of touch and quite frankly insulting for the King to “invite” the public to swear allegiance to him, thus intensifying the divide between the Royal Family and us. Their previous efforts to normalise the family and make them seem “just like us” are immediately shot down by this addressing of the public as Charles’ subjects, or rather the peasants, who inhabit his land.

Despite the Church of England attempting to change his statement and claiming it was misworded, the King has countless advisors and therefore it’s hard to see this as a misinterpretation. Charles may be the King of the United Kingdom, but he is certainly not the “people’s King”.