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Charles Not Your King? Better Not Shout About It<!-- wp:html --><p>POOL</p> <p>Officially, according to Scotland Yard, it’s still a free country. The British public “absolutely” have a right to protest.</p> <p>But if you do decide that you’re not happy being a loyal subject of King Charles III, or that you disagree with his ascension to the throne under an outdated system of hereditary monarchy, you might best keep your mouth shut. The message that people are allowed to protest—even as the <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/queen-elizabeths-death-sends-brits-into-grief-spiral-with-35-hour-queues-predicted-to-pay-respects-at-coffin">nation mourns</a> the death of a 96-year-old monarch—doesn’t seem to have gotten through to rank-and-file officers.</p> <p>About a dozen people are known to have been arrested, or forcefully moved on, after disrupting either Queen Elizabeth II’s memorial procession or events marking the proclamation of Charles III. There were at least five arrests in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh, where a week of <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/king-charles-announces-queen-elizabeth-mourning-period-will-last-until-september-26">memorial events</a> kicked off after the queen’s coffin <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/queen-elizabeth-ii-undertakes-her-final-journey">arrived in a hearse</a> from Balmoral Castle, where she died last week.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/charles-not-your-king-better-not-shout-about-it?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

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Officially, according to Scotland Yard, it’s still a free country. The British public “absolutely” have a right to protest.

But if you do decide that you’re not happy being a loyal subject of King Charles III, or that you disagree with his ascension to the throne under an outdated system of hereditary monarchy, you might best keep your mouth shut. The message that people are allowed to protest—even as the nation mourns the death of a 96-year-old monarch—doesn’t seem to have gotten through to rank-and-file officers.

About a dozen people are known to have been arrested, or forcefully moved on, after disrupting either Queen Elizabeth II’s memorial procession or events marking the proclamation of Charles III. There were at least five arrests in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh, where a week of memorial events kicked off after the queen’s coffin arrived in a hearse from Balmoral Castle, where she died last week.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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