Why King Charles will succeed with Queen Camilla by his side
The new monarch critics are likely to stay silenced because when he married his wife he also acquired a business partner and brand manager for the firm.
Simon HefferHistorian, journalist, author and political commentator.
Partly because of the magnificence of his predecessor, and partly because of a campaign against him in parts of the British tabloid press that lasted for decades, expectations of King Charles III were not generally high.
Before he married for the first time, in 1981, he had been teased and hounded for not settling down (he had reached the grand old age of 32 when he finally tied the knot).
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Simon Heffer is an English historian, journalist, author and political commentator and is currently a scholar-in-residence at the Centre for Independent Studies in Sydney.
