King Charles III

  • Westminster Abbey’s contradictions: The King and the Spencers at war

    During a conversation with David Hoyle, the Dean of Westminster Abbey, I was struck by his description of the Abbey as “a place of contradiction.” He pointed to the burial sites of Mary I and Elizabeth I, monarchs who were divided by bitter religious conflict and by profoundly different visions of England. Yet there they…

    Westminster Abbey’s contradictions: The King and the Spencers at war
  • The point of Rome

    King Charles walked into Congress amid dread and left having threaded a needle. Pope Leo’s doing something similar from Rome.

    The point of Rome

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