While they are different in many respects, King Charles III did learn a few things from the Duke of Windsor
on 6 May, he will inevitably be thinking of his forbears: from his mother Elizabeth II to the other men and women who have sat in Westminster Abbey and been crowned king or queen. He joins a select band. Since the creation of the United Kingdom in 1707, there have only been twelve monarchs before him who have done the same.
Nobody has ever described King Charles as a fascist or a dangerous threat to international security. Yet it was not out of mere curiosity that the then-Prince of Wales visited the disgraced Duke of Windsor at his Parisian home on October 4 1970, when Charles was 21 and Edward was 76. It was a meeting brokered by Lord ‘Dickie’ Mountbatten, Charles’s great-uncle, who was closer to the Duke of Windsor than the Royal Family were.
While Charles, either as Prince of Wales or in the few months that he has been king, has shown no signs of wishing to exert overt influence over the media, he has nonetheless at times been a modernising, interventionist figure in the vein of his great-uncle.
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