September 10, 2022

With the sorrowful demise of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-reigning monarch in British history，her son, the 73-year-old Charles Philip Arthur George, has ascended to the British throne as he was formally proclaimed King at a historic Accession Council in an ancient ceremony at St James's Palace in London on Saturday. 

While pledging he would strive to uphold the constitutional government, Charles was proclaimed as the new monarch at a time when Britain is facing multiple challenges including a new government led by Prime Minister Liz Truss which is left with a huge mess to tackle with, from an ailing economy to the cost of living crisis, and growing voices in Scotland and Northern Ireland to leave the UK as well as an uncertain prospect of the UK. 

With the declining influence of the Royal family, analysts believed that anti-monarchy movements may likely gather momentum in the UK as well as in countries where the Crown is still head of state, but the key lies in whether Charles could walk out of the shadow posed under his mother’s glory and find his role, different from the queen, in better coordinating with the new government. 

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