Every day, the correspondents’ club describes how the same current event is illustrated in two countries.
Despite the rain and a certain lack of popular enthusiasm surrounding this ceremony, which the United Kingdom had not known for 70 years, tens of thousands of people gathered on Saturday, April 6, in London, during the coronation, to catch a glimpse of King Charles III and Queen Camilia from the mythical balcony of Buckingham Palace after his coronation at Westminster Abbey. Charles III is not only king of the United Kingdom but also of 14 Commonwealth countries ranging from Canada to Australia.
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18,000 kilometers from London, this attachment to the British crown remains important for part of the Australian population. But this share seems to be increasingly reduced and mainly concerns increasingly older people. On the contrary, locals find it completely absurd that Charles III is the king of Australia. Some elected officials find it downright flokloric that the Governor General of Australia and the Prime Minister must swear loyalty and obedience to the King.
In Canada, support for the monarchy is also waning. According to a poll, only one in four people think Canada should remain a monarchy. And three out of five even oppose the son of Elizabeth II becoming king of Canada. Ties with Great Britain have been loosened since the Second World War. The Canadian economy has won its letters of nobility, but is also getting closer to the United States.
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