Shocking King Charles emergency plan revealed: Royal commentator

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Bridgerton, old British nostalgia is everywhere. You can immediately picture what I’m talking about: Empire line dresses and dashing dukes simply in desperate want of an anachronistically disagreeable wife and some scene with one of those silly dances where eight people prance around in a rectangle.But the actual, real past less swoon-worthy.

In 1811, after years of George III suffering repeated, extended bouts of ‘madness’, parliament interceded to stave off a constitutional crisis, naming his lecherous no-hoper of a son, the later George IV, as Prince Regent. (A Regency for all you fact-o-philes is when the monarch is incapacitated or unable to fulfil their duties so the next in line to the throne is appointed regent to act their stead, thus making them King or Queen in all but name.)This Georgian Regency would last for nearly a decade and you and I would have assumed there would never be another one.

That is, until this year. Recent reports have, for the first time in centuries, brought up the prospect of the ‘R’ word.King Charles is, as the entire world and several of our closest solar systems know, currently being treated for cancer, his candidness about which is a major royal first.

Things are looking up. Ish, anyway.Last weekend, His Majesty joined a dispiritingly small gaggle of greying working HRHs and their plus ones (Mr.