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Is King Charles’s honeymoon over?

4 November 2024

12:25 AM

4 November 2024

12:25 AM

Since King Charles became monarch in September 2022, after the death of Elizabeth II, he has received reasonably warm treatment from the press. It is easy to forget that, for much of the 1990s and 2000s, he was seen as an unpopular figure, lambasted by the Diana-supporting tabloids for being an adulterer (never mind his former wife’s behaviour; he, apparently should have known better) and criticised in the broadsheets for excessive intervention in the work of the government.

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