Ever since King Charles revealed his cancer diagnosis, royal fans have speculated if His Majesty will abdicate and if Prince William would take the helm sooner rather than later.
Only Scandal Would Justify Abdication As Being a Monarch is for Life
Royal experts stand firm in that King Charles waited a lifetime to become King, and he’s not going to give it up so easily.
Majesty magazine managing editor Joe Little remarked dryly
“It’ll happen 10 minutes after hell freezes over,”
when asked whether people thought King Charles would step down so his son would reign.
Only if the King was embroiled in a scandal would he abdicate because, in the UK,
“you do not see peaceful abdications,”
royal expert Carolyn Harris explained.
One could safely assume that if heaven forbid, Prince Andrew had been King, he would have abdicated the throne in November 2019 or even sooner. His relationship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein had become an offensive distraction from his family’s work.
No one would embrace a King who had a checkered past with a sex offender. If Andrew were King, he would definitely need to step down. It’s just an example.
Queen Elizabeth is a beautiful and often touching example of a true royal until death. She served as a template that Charles would follow when his mother died and he became King.
Charles will be on that throne until his last dying breath, and that’s that. Harris said,
“The King would have to be severely incapacitated to decide to abdicate, considering the examples of his mother and father to keep calm and carry on.”
The British Don’t Take Abdication Lightly
Even then, William would only act as King on Charles’s behalf, but there would be no coronation ceremony. William has been taking over royal duties since his father has been ill.
There was talk of Charles abdicating even before he received his diagnosis. When Queen Margarethe abdicated her role as Her Majesty in Denmark in January of this year, people wondered if Charles would do the same.
However, British monarchies look at abdication differently than European ones. The last time a British monarch abdicated was in December 1936, and saying it was a significant deal is putting it lightly.
Edward VIII served as King for just under a year before he abdicated, which is disgraceful. The reason for him abdicating? So that he could marry the woman he loved. American socialite, divorcee, and the original Meghan Markle, Wallis Simpson.
The new monarch would be his younger brother, George, who would become King George VI. George’s oldest daughter, who was then Princess Elizabeth, was not expected to become Queen.
However, when her uncle Edward abdicated and her father, George, became King, the young Princess became heir to the throne.
Throughout her life, Elizabeth’s mother and Charles’s grandmother, the Queen Mary, stressed how important a life of service was.
When Elizabeth’s father, King George, passed on in February 1952, she immediately took the throne—and settled into the idea of being Queen for the rest of her life.
So, Charles abdicating the throne isn’t really in the cards. He has too much respect for the monarchy he serves.
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