Now it’s a year since a glut of articles asking “what kind of king will Charles be?”, maybe it’s not too soon for a first appraisal. Even allowing for the coronation – you try finding a conductor who doesn’t have anger management issues – some differences in reigning quality should by now be evident.
Has he met expectations? It’s not as if Charles lacked time or opportunities to plan for a job that, although it dawned on him early “with the most ghastly inexorable sense”, he never decided, like his reputation as a bit of a reformer, to repudiate.
