Charles to be King?!

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. Calls for him to be 'bypassed' were never realistic

There's no point in saying "we have a monarch because of tradition" and then throwing a thousand years of tradition in the bin, and doing something unprecedented like skipping over the heir to the throne because some people think his son is a nicer person. The nearest equivalent I can think of since 1066 is when Matilda was rejected in favour of her cousin Stephen and then son Henry II. And that was because she was a woman. "Let's go back 9 centuries" is hardly a call people can rally around. And even then, we had to have a civil war about it (like the Wars of the Roses, or the deposition of James II). If people are calling for a civil war to prevent Charles ascending the throne, I'd rather go the whole hog and form a Republic. I can think of many people I'd rather have as head of state than William or Charles.

The monarch isn't there to be liked. It's to tell us that the country has rules that we're not allowed to change.