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As his subjects endure the dire costs of Britain’s floundering government, what can King Charles III do about it? Nothing. Doing nothing in political crises is precisely what Queen Elizabeth II always practiced—and sternly advised to her heir.
What the new monarch really thinks about the pain of a plunging pound sterling, the pensions of millions of people being jeopardized, a welfare state starved of funds, a winter in which many will find it hard to be warm and fed, and in Liz Truss a prime minister who seems as oblivious of peril as the captain of the Titanic—of all of this he cannot speak.