King Charles III has been a very dull monarch, thank God: Max Hastings

King Charles III has been a very dull monarch, thank God: Max Hastings
Queen Camilla has proved the big success story of King Charles III's reign. (Image: Getty)
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By Max HastingsBritain’s queen is a year dead, and her son is passing his first anniversary on the throne. What has astonished his subjects – and maybe disappointed royal-watching bloggers around the world – is how pleasantly uneventful and indeed dull Charles III’s reign has turned out to be. There have been no public tantrums from the man himself, though I hear informed reports of a few private ones. For decades, as Prince of Wales, the king ploughed his own furrow, sometimes with chaotic consequences, especi...

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