Here’s a plan for green King Charles: sell the family silver and use the cash to save the planet

Prince – now King – Charles at a party in Buckingham Palace garden in 2019. ‘He could offer it London as a new public park.’ Photograph: WPA/Getty Images

So King Charles won’t be going to Cop27, by order of Liz Truss; an inauspicious start for a monarch with pretensions to remain an influencer and be known as the first “green” king.

But he should take heart: Truss may not be long for No10, and Charles may look at recent events and conclude that no-one listens to her anyway. If so, there are plenty of opportunities now for him to turn the archaic House of Windsor into an institution fit for an age of climate breakdown, poverty and deep inequalities.