Charles III

by Robert Hardman

ISBN: 9781035027415

Published: 2024-01-18

An insightful and authoritative account of the first year of King Charles's reign by royal expert and bestselling author Robert Hardman. The death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022 was a moment of profound shock and grief for the United Kingdom, and the world. She had been a steadfast presence for seventy years but now, suddenly, the future of the monarchy rested on the shoulders of her son, then age seventy-three. No new monarch had spent longer preparing for such a day. Charles III faced many challenges, not least uniting a fractious nation, calls for the end of the monarchy in several realms and painful family rifts. Like the late Queen before him, he would need to modernise and adapt - but, in his case, at speed. Charles III: The Making of a King will take readers behind the scenes of the new King's reign, from those very first responses to the death of his mother to the drama behind his Coronation and a remarkable number of swift but subtle changes, showing the sort of...