After Queen Elizabeth II, it's a long line of kings. Will that matter?
It's reigning men! Hallelujah? Whether you like it or not, that's the forecast for this sceptered isle for the next 75 years or so. As Britain mourns Queen Elizabeth II and ushers in the era of King Charles III, a relatively overlooked fact is that, barring accident or revolution, the United Kingdom is set to have a man rather than a woman on the throne deep into the 21st century, perhaps even ...
It's reigning men! Hallelujah?
Whether you like it or not, that's the forecast for this sceptered isle for the next 75 years or so.
As Britain mourns Queen Elizabeth II and ushers in the era of King Charles III, a relatively overlooked fact is that, barring accident or revolution, the United Kingdom is set to have a man rather than a woman on the throne deep into the 21st century, perhaps even into the 22nd.
It's a switch at the top whose effect could go beyond the novel sight of a royal 5 o'clock shadow. Britons now lamenting the loss of a woman many describe as the nation's grandmother may find themselves adjusting their expectations of how their monarch ought to behave or modifying their own ideas of gender roles.
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