THANK YOU SO MUCH.
WE’LL GET BACK TO YOU.
>> Sandra: ALL RIGHT.
AS THOSE FOLKS CONTINUE TO FILE
OUT OF ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL
THERE FOLLOWING THE PRAYER
SERVICE FOR THE QUEEN, LET’S BRING IN DUNCAN LARCOMB, FORMER
BRING IN DUNCAN LARCOMB, FORMER
ROYAL EDITOR OF "THE SUN," AND
AUTHOR, A BIT WHAT WE HEARD FROM
KING CHARLES THE TOP OF THE LAST
HOUR HIS FIRST ADDRESS TO HIS
COUNTRY.
>> THE QUEEN DID WITH SUCH
UNSWERVING DEVOTION, I TOO NOW
SOLEMNLY PLEDGE MYSELF
THROUGHOUT THE REMAINING TIME
GOD GRANTS ME TO UPHOLD THE
CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLES AT THE
HEART OF OUR NATION.
I SHALL ENDEAVOR TO SERVE YOU
WITH LOYALTY, RESPECT, AND LOVE,
AS I HAVE THROUGHOUT MY LIFE.
>> Sandra: REALLY THERE
REFLECTING DUNCAN ON THE
COMMITMENT OF SERVICE TO THE
NATION THAT HIS MOTHER QUEEN
ELIZABETH II MADE WHEN SHE
ASCENDED TO THE THRONE, LIFELONG
SERVICE I RENEW TO YOU ALL
TODAY.
YOUR REACTION SO FAR.
>> THIS WAS A DAY OF FIRSTS,
REALLY, THE MOST IMPORTANT DAY
OF PRINCE CHARLES’S LIFE, HE’S
NOW KING CHARLES, AND IT IS A
REAL MOMENT IN HISTORY TO HEAR
WHAT HE’S GOT TO SAY.
THAT DIDN’T SOUND LIKE THE OLD
PRINCE CHARLES TO ME.
I’VE INTERVIEWED HIM SEVERAL
TIMES, I’VE TRAVELED THE WORLD
WITH HIM, SPOKEN TO HIM MANY,
MANY TIMES, HE SOUNDED A LITTLE
BIT MORE REGAL, LIKE SOMEONE WHO
HAD COME OUT FROM SOMEBODY
ELSE’S SHADOW AND HERE HE WAS
DELIVERING A SPEECH THAT HE HAS
HAD 70 YEARS TO PREPARE FOR SO
IT WAS REALLY, I MEAN, I’M
GRATEFUL I’M ON HERE WATCHING IT
ALL WITH YOU BECAUSE WOW, WHAT A
MOMENT THAT WAS IN THE HISTORY
OF THE BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY.
>> John: DUNCAN, I THINK THERE
WAS A LOT OF QUESTION WHAT KIND
OF KING CHARLES WOULD BE AND THE
INAUGURAL ADDRESS TO THE U.K.
AND INDEED TO THE WORLD HE SEEMED TO SHOW A REGAL NATURE
SEEMED TO SHOW A REGAL NATURE
THAT I THINK HAS PROBABLY ALAYED
FEARS PEOPLE HAD IF HE WAS UP TO
THE TASK.
THE QUESTION IS HOW MIGHT THE
MONARCHY CHANGE UNDER PRINCE
CHARLES.
THE DAILY MAIL HAD SOME IDEAS OF
THINGS THAT MAY CHANGE UNDER
CHARLES’ REIGN.
PUT THOSE UP ON THE SCREEN IF WE
COULD.
ONE OF THE THINGS WOULD BE TO
TURN BALMORAL INTO A MUSEUM TO
HONOR THE QUEEN.
BUCKINGHAM PALACE MIGHT BECOME
MORE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
HE MAY REVAMP LAVISH APARTMENTS
TO SMALLER LIVING QUARTERS.
HE HIMSELF MIGHT ADOPT A FLAT
ABOVE THE SHOP IN BUCKINGHAM
PALACE, IF YOU WILL, AND THEN
THERE WAS SPECULATION THAT MAYBE
IN THE FUTURE ONLY HEIRS TO THE
THRONE AND THEIR IMMEDIATE
FAMILIES WOULD RECEIVE FULL
TITLES, PUBLIC FINANCIAL SUPPORT
AND POLICE PROTECTION.
AND THEN YOU WONDER ABOUT HIS
ADVOCACY WORK.
HE SAID HE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO
SPEND AS MUCH TIME WITH THE
CHARITIES HE’S FAMOUS FOR,
TAKING ON THIS NEW TITLE.
BUT HIS POLITICS AND HIS
ADVOCACY WORK ARE WELL-KNOWN AND
WILL THAT PERMEATE HIS REIGN.
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
>> YEAH, THAT’S A GREAT PROBLEM.
AND CLUES IN THERE YOU SUGGEST
IN THAT SPEECH.
WHAT KING CHARLES IS TELLING US
APART FROM ALL THE STUFF THAT WE
WOULD EXPECT, A MOVING TREATMENT
TO HIS MOTHER, HE’S TELLING THE
PUBLIC HOW IT WOULD CHANGE, OK,
LET ME START.
KATE, I’VE COVERED HER NOW FOR
19 YEARS, SHE’S BEEN WAITING AND
TODAY JUST NOW SHE BECAME A
PRINCESS FOR THE FIRST TIME,
PRINCESS CATHERINE.
WILLIAM HAS ALSO INHERITED THE
TITLES THAT COME WITH SCOTLAND
AS THE DUKE OF ROTHSY AND DUKE
AND DUCHESS OF CORNWALL, IT
MEANS A PAY RISE OF $25 MILLION
A YEAR, AND IT MEANS THAT HE NOW
HAS LAND PORTFOLIO OF
1.3 BILLION USD.
AND THAT’S NOT ALL.
OBVIOUSLY THE MENTION OF HARRY,
MAYBE THAT’S A SEPARATE ISSUE.
BUT WE NOW KNOW THAT PRINCE
CHARLES, NOW HE IS KING, DOES
NOT NECESSARILY WANT TO DRAW THE
ATTENTION OF THE ROYAL FAMILY ON
TO THE OTHERS, HIS BROTHER
PRINCE ANDREW, NOT MENTIONED,
NOR WAS HIS SISTER, PRINCESS
ANNE, NOR WAS I BELIEVE PRINCE
GEORGE.
THE FOCUS WAS ON A SLIM, HIS
ROLE AS THE MONARCH SUPPORTED
FUNDAMENTALLY BY, I’LL SAY IT,
FIRST I’VE SAID IT, BY THE
PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES,
WILLIAM AND KATE.
A LOT THERE.
>> Sandra: AS THE AUTHOR OF THE
BOOK "PRINCE HARRY," THIS SOUND
IN THE SPEECH BY PRINCE CHARLES
AN HOUR AGO, SPECIFICALLY ON HIS
SONS, WILLIAM AND HARRY.
LISTEN.
>> AS MY HEIR, WILLIAM NOW
ASSUMES THE SCOTTISH TITLES
WHICH HAVE MEANT SO MUCH TO ME.
TODAY I AM PROUD TO CREATE HIM
PRINCE OF WALES WITH CATHERINE
BESIDE HIM, OUR NEW PRINCE AND
PRINCESS OF WALES WILL, I KNOW,
CONTINUE TO INSPIRE AND LEAD OUR
NATIONAL CONVERSATIONS.
I WANT ALSO TO EXPRESS MY LOVE
FOR HARRY AND MEGHAN AS THEY
CONTINUE TO BUILD THEIR LIVES
OVERSEAS.
>> Sandra: DUNCAN, A LOT OF
REACTION TO THAT, AND OBVIOUSLY
A LOT WILL BE -- A LOT WILL BE
SAID FOR THE WAY HE APPROACHED
HARRY AND MEGHAN, OBVIOUSLY WITH
SO MUCH THAT HAS HAPPENED SINCE
THEY WED, BUT WHAT WAS YOUR
REACTION?
>> I AM IN NO DOUBT IN MY
MIND -- IT’S SO NEW, WHAT KING
CHARLES MEANT.
HE WAS EXTENDING AN OLIVE BRANCH
THERE TO HIS SON, SLIGHTLY
WAYWARD SON SHALL WE SAY IN
TERMS OF THE ONLY FLY IN THE
SHOT IN AN OTHERWISE MOMENTOUS
DAY FOR HIM.
HE MENTIONED HIS SON HARRY,
TALKED OF LOVE AND TALKED THERE
AS A FATHER.
HE HAS NOW GOT THE TOP JOB.
THE QUEEN WAS THE BOSS.
NOW CHARLES IS, AND HE HAS TO
SORT OUT THIS FRICTION BETWEEN
HARRY AND MEGHAN AND HIM AS KING
AND ACTUALLY HIS SON WILLIAM AS
HEIR.
THAT WAS HIS WAY OF
ACKNOWLEDGING HARRY.
YOU DO EXIST, AND HE MENTIONED
MEGHAN’S NAME, YOU, TOO, EXIST.
IT DOESN’T MENTION ANY OTHER
MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL FAMILY IN
HIS SPEECH.
THAT WAS A DELIBERATE AND A
FIRST I THINK ATTEMPT BY THE NEW
KING OF ENGLAND, BY PRINCE
CHARLES AS HE WAS HARRY’S FATHER
DOES NOT WANT ANY MORE ILL WILL.
THAT MESSAGE ALMOST LOST IN ALL
THAT INFORMATION AND MAGNITUDE,
BUT THAT MESSAGE IS CLEAR, I
WOULD SUGGEST.
>> John: DUNCAN, A LOT OF PEOPLE
LOOKED AT WHAT THE KING SAID IN
TERMS OF I’M ELEVATING PRINCE
WILLIAM AND KATE TO THE PRINCE
AND PRINCESS OF WALES.
NEXT IN LINE AFTER WILLIAM IS
GEORGE.
HARRY IS IN A PARALLEL LINE,
DISASTER WOULD HAVE TO BEFALL
PRINCE WILLIAM’S LINE FOR HARRY
TO BE ELIGIBLE.
SO THE FACT HE MENTIONED THE
ELEVATION OF THE TITLES FOR ONE
SON BUT NOT THE OTHER, WE CAN’T
READ TOO MUCH INTO THAT, CAN WE,
THERE WAS REALLY NOTHING FOR
HARRY.
>> WELL, THE ROYALS ARE -- IT’S
REALLY ALL ABOUT THE SUBTLETY,
AND I MIGHT BE WRONG BUT STATE
ON RECORD WHAT PRINCE, HE DID,
WHAT KING CHARLES IS SAYING
ABOUT HIS SON IS ACKNOWLEDGING HIM.
HE’S NOT PUBLICLY HUMILIATING
HIM AND NOT IGNORING HIM.
HARRY AND MEGHAN MADE A MINIMUM
VISIT AND WE DON’T KNOW WHY THEY
FLEW HOME IN A PRIVATE JET
BEFORE THE WHOLE THING WAS
FINISHED.
KING CHARLES HAS A JOB, ONE OF
HIS FIRST JOBS IS TO SORT OUT
THIS FEUD BETWEEN HIS SON AND
HEIR, WILLIAM, AND HIS SON
PRINCE HARRY.
BUT LOOK, HARRY AND MEGHAN OPTED
OUT, THEY QUIT AS EMPLOYEES OF
THE ROYAL FAMILY.
SO IT WOULD BE COMPLETELY
BIZARRE, FRANKLY, IF KING
CHARLES HAD JUST STOOD UP AND
GIVEN THEM ANOTHER TITLE OR
ANOTHER WAY OF REFERRING TO
THEM.
I THINK THERE ARE SOME WHO WILL
BE UP UNTIL THAT POINT SURPRISED
THAT THEY HAVE EVEN MANAGED TO
RETAIN THE TITLE OF DUKE AND
DUCHESS OF SUSSEX, GIVEN THE
FEELING OF WHAT THEY HAVE DONE,
GIVING INTERVIEWS ABOUT THE
ROYALS, IT’S A BETRAYAL IN THE
EYES OF THE INNER CIRCLE OF
FAMILY.
I THINK THAT’S A VERY
SIGNIFICANT MOMENT, PERHAPS NOT
THE RIGHT TIME, BUT IN THE WEEKS
AND MONTHS DOWN THE ROAD THAT,
WILL TELL US A GREAT DEAL
POTENTIALLY.
AS I SAY, SOMETHING THAT FRANKLY
HAS BLIGHTED THE QUEEN’S LAST
YEAR AND A HALF, TWO YEARS OF
HER LIFE, THAT CALLING OUT
BETWEEN TWO BROTHERS WHO
FRANKLY, ALTHOUGH THEY WON’T
ADMIT IT, STILL LOVE EACH OTHER.
>> Sandra: OK.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR JOINING
US.