According to the Global Network, on the evening of the 8th, Buckingham Palace announced that according to the British royal succession system, Prince Charles took the throne, known as "Charles III", and his wife Camilla would become queen.
After news of Elizabeth II's death became public, Charles spoke, which he called the day "the saddest moment of the Windsor family".
Although Charles has ascended the throne and officially becomes King of The United Kingdom, according to the traditions of the British Royal Family, his coronation is likely to take place months or even a year later. Elizabeth II ascended the throne on 6 February 1952, but her coronation was still not held until after the funeral of the elder King George VI, on 2 June 1953.
The official website of the British royal family said that the coronation of the British monarch was not only a grand celebration ceremony, but also a solemn religious ceremony. For more than 900 years, the coronation of the British monarch has been held at Westminster Abbey and will be presided over by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the second largest leader of the Church of England.
Since Elizabeth II issued a public statement in February this year saying that she wanted Prince Charles's wife Camilla to receive the title of "Queen" after Charles ascended the throne, it is possible that Camilla will be crowned with Charles.
It is worth mentioning that the last time the king and queen were coronated together was in 1937, the parents of Elizabeth II, and Elizabeth II's husband, Prince Philip, did not receive this honor.
However, before Charles was crowned, there were already many foreign media who were not optimistic that he would become a good king.
The Guardian: The new king who wants to get out of the Queen's shadow
The Guardian said that although the British monarch is a formulaic, even almost robot-like job, it is still performed by humans, and Charles and Elizabeth II have very different personalities.
Charles spent his life in the shadow of Elizabeth II, and was guided by Elizabeth II at every turn when he was prince, but after the Queen's death, Charles may be like "a wild horse that has lost its reins".
Charles is a public figure with a strong desire to express himself, he has his own views on all the world's problems, never hides his views on climate change, agriculture, monument conservation and other familiar fields, and he insists that his views are personal and have nothing to do with the British Royal Family.
Although under a constitutional monarchy, the British monarch is only a ceremonial role, the Guardian notes that the British monarch actually still has considerable power. In 1963, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was in poor health, and there was a lack of formal procedures for the selection of a successor leader, and many candidates proposed to succeed Macmillan, but Elizabeth II secretly designated a successor prime minister.
In 1974 and 2010, when the "Hanging Parliament" appeared, it was customary for both Prime Ministers Heath and Brown to settle the issue through negotiations with Buckingham Palace. So the Guardian argues that after truly coming to power, Charles's character may have made him feel like he could play a more active role in British politics.
The British monarch held a secret meeting with the Prime Minister every week, and Charles had reason to think that this would be an opportunity to get involved in politics openly, and he could argue with the Prime Minister about his views on the events, and if the Prime Minister was too incompetent, Charles might further demonstrate the power of the King. The guardian therefore argues that Charles will be a pompous and contentious king, and that the already chaotic House of Commons will be even more "lively" in the future.
American "Politics" Network: Radical New King
If Charles continues to advance his radicalism on the throne, it will not only lose the recognition of the American public, but also the United States will lose interest in the British monarchy, which has spread British political influence in the United States over the past few decades and cemented Anglo-American friendship.
Politics praised Elizabeth II's "marshmallow diplomacy" — sweet, soft, unpolitical — a diplomatic offensive that fascinated the United States from top to bottom, and Obama once said Elizabeth II was one of his favorites. According to polls, 72 percent of Democrats and 68 percent of Republicans are fond of Elizabeth II, and this favor has spread further to the British monarchy.
But Charles, unlike him, has been too radical in his approach to issues such as climate change, with notable remarks such as "the apocalyptic clock of climate change is ticking" and "the world is on the brink of crisis." However, the United States is a polarized country on climate issues, only the Democratic Party will care about climate issues, and the Republican Party and most of the American public are skeptical of climate change. According to a 2019 poll, 51% of Britons believe the climate is changing, but only 38% of Americans agree.
Moreover, Charles's failed marriage to Diana and the series of events that followed made the American people full of disgust with him, and they liked Princess Diana even more. Vaughn, a history professor at the University of Chicago, said that if Charles continued to be "outspoken" after taking the throne, he would lose his fig leaf as king. And his stance on climate change could become a political weapon for the United States to attack each other
Although the King of England is only a fictitious monarch, the King still has the power to vote and veto bills, but since the passage of the Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights, successive British monarchs have rarely done so, and Elizabeth II is a model of adherence to tradition, but the question is whether Charles will continue to uphold tradition and maintain the dignity of the British political system, or will he try to exert more influence on the House of Commons and 10 Downing Street, as Elizabeth II once intended to do?