Charles plans to call a summit to discuss the future of the royal family
if he turned up with an anti-monarchy placard while Charles was in the town. When I was arrested in Oxford for objecting to the proclamation of Charles as king, Andrew Marr suggested that Charles himself would disagree with the arrest of peaceful anti-monarchy protesters such as me. I have no idea whether Charles disagrees with these arrests or even if he is aware of them, as he has.
Thirdly – and this is the one that would make a real difference – call for a referendum on the future of the monarchy. Royalists often insist that republicanism is a marginal position – ignoring opinion polls that show that even in the UK a significant minority of people want a republic, with much larger numbers in some of the other countries over which Charles claims the right to reign.
Symon Hill is Campaigns Manager of the Peace Pledge Union and a history tutor for the Workers’ Educational Association
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