King Charles III's first months on the throne have shown he's a monarch who will take an active role in different causes and is ready to engage with the public, royal experts say, but he still has work to do to win over a skeptical Canadian public.
's first months on the throne have shown he's a monarch who will take an active role in different causes and is ready to engage with the public, royal experts say, but he still has work to do to win over a skeptical Canadian public.
"There was a removed sense , where with Charles we're not seeing that," Tidridge said in a phone interview from Waterdown, Ont. "He's more engaged in different spheres, especially the spheres he's identified as really important to him." Canadians, however, appear to be unmoved by the new monarch's efforts -- if they've noticed them at all.
She said Charles and Camilla, along with Prince William and his wife Kate, have been well-received on visits to Canada, including a three-day tour last May that brought Charles and Camilla to Newfoundland, Ottawa and the Northwest Territories. But the King's desire for a "slimmed-down" monarchy with fewer working members means such visits may be shorter and less frequent.
Under Canada's constitutional setup, he said, the sovereign acts under the advice of an elected representative, meaning he can't visit Canada or take a significant action -- such as issuing an apology to Indigenous people for their treatment under the Crown -- without the approval of the PMO.
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