“The tragedy is not that King Charles respects Islam. The tragedy is that he appears increasingly unsure whether Christianity is true. And a Christian kingship without conviction is not progress – it is abdication,” Bishop Ceirion Dewar writes.
The most serious constitutional shifts rarely announce themselves with fanfare. They emerge instead through tone, emphasis and the gradual re-ordering of loyalties – noticed first by those who understand what an office is for, and only later by the wider public. That is where we now find ourselves in relation to King Charles III: not confronting a single speech or gesture in isolation, but recognising a sustained pattern of theological softening that sits uneasily – indeed incompatibly – with the historic vocation of a Christian monarch and Supreme Governor of the Church of England.
This is not a question of personal manners, nor of racial or religious hostility. It is a question of office. Charles is not merely a private citizen with eclectic spiritual interests; he is the Supreme Governor of the Church of England – a role forged in blood, reformation, covenant and national history. What happens, then, when the man who embodies that role increasingly speaks as though Christianity is merely one voice among many, rather than the spiritual grammar of the realm he governs?...<<<Read More>>>...
