There are definitely British monarchs about whom I know a great deal. I once spent a great deal of time with King Charles I’s encrypted correspondence with Queen Henrietta Maria, for instance, and that lamented king and martyr had a tremor in his handwriting that reads to my eye like a stammer.
I said a few months ago that King Charles was going to advance British interests no end by tucking the Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George into his checked bag. It would not surprise me if President Trump would delight in holding a higher order of chivalry than Ronald Reagan’s, and I’m sure he’d wear the glittery breast badge and neck medal on formal occasions whatever the protocol people said. When President Trump was being rather less charming in his comments on British fighting spirit a few weeks ago, I said that King Charles will have been told to send that GCMG hardware back to Asprey’s.
Never mind that, though: I rather relished the thought of doing modern royal commentary, and I don’t imagine I’ll have another chance.
A plug for some of my off-podcast work though: I’ve just been on Sky News talking about efforts to recruit people to be Iranian spies on Telegram, and those might actually be Iranian efforts! I’ve got a Chernobyl documentary running on Discovery Channel in the US and on Channel 4 in the UK. I’m also on a rather sharply produced Suez documentary, also on Channel 4.
