One big difference between the reigns of King Charles III and Queen Elizabeth II is the splash of yellow at most of Charles’s public engagements. A gaggle of protesters, sometimes shouting and booing, hold bright yellow signs that read “Not My King.”
” during a 2007 Westminster Abbey service commemorating the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade. When she visited Dublin in 2012, she was met with signs reading “Britain out of Ireland.”
Last month, a couple from a youth movement called No More Royals jumped over the security rope at Windsor Castle and lay down on a bed made for King Charles II and read a copy of Prince Harry’s scathing memoir, “Spare.”in September after he shouted “Who elected him?!” as a document formally proclaiming Charles as king was read aloud.
Norman Baker, author of a book on royal finances, said he believed that most Brits want a royal family, “but one which is a bit more normal, a bit more accountable, a lot less expensive.”The British monarch doesn’t have political power but is still involved in the business of government.
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