The second Elizabethan era is coming to an end.
For seventy years the queen embodied the continuity of the monarchy and something immutable in a country marked by unprecedented technological and societal upheavals.
A new era opens with Charles III.
The king remained in the antechamber of the throne and in his mother's shadow for decades.
His reign is already raising a number of questions, while the United Kingdom is shaken by strong turbulence.
How to succeed an adored international figure?
Which king will this unloved prince be?
His mother adhered to “constitutional neutrality” so scrupulously that her opinion on the major issues of her time – apartheid, feminism, Brexit – was not known.
The Prince of Wales, for his part, has carved out a reputation for himself by allowing himself great freedom for his commitments and his passions, which led him to intervene with the ministers of Margaret Thatcher or Tony Blair.
The British wondered: will it be…
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