Expert on King Charles vs Prince William: "The end of the monarchy as we know it is a possibility"
Salon"This is the one time where I feel like the reporting is written without fear or favor," says author Omid Scobie. As a journalist who's spent over a dozen years covering the royal family, Scobie has had a first-row seat for some of the biggest moments in the modern British monarchy, from the marriage of Prince William and Catherine to the notorious 2020 Megxit of "spare" Prince Harry and Meghan, through the death of Elizabeth II and the reign of the new king, Charles. When I covered the queen's funeral and her passing, one of the things that we heard time and time again from palace aides, past and present, friends of the family, that all spoke on the record was this respect they had for the queen for remaining above the fray, for always keeping the focus on the crown and the job at hand and never making it about herself, and also always upholding the values, the morals, the ethics and the principles that come with what supposedly the crown represents, those traditional British family values that the royal family are supposed to be championing. The issue around slavery and the royal family's involvement in it, whilst many will argue it's unfair to put that on the current modern working royals, you can't break their ancestral links. "We have members of the royal family operating in silos where it's all about one's own personal image, but that often comes at the cost of other family members."
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