‘After a week of profound change, our unsettled kingdom seeks a steady hand’
The immediate challenge for King Charles is to do what his mother was so good at – reassuring an anxious nation….
He shook hundreds of hands, chatting and smiling. One woman kissed his wrist, another his cheek. Charles did not seem in the least disconcerted. Indeed, one his security staff encouraged the crowd not to view events through their mobile phones, but to put them down and “enjoy the moment”. The King, it seems, wanted nothing to get between him and the people he now rules. Their response was a spontaneous chorus of God Save the King.
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