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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
Kristin Contino

King Charles Was Accused of Being Too "Woke" By Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson wearing a navy suit and tie standing next to King Charles and looking at him quizzically .

Boris Johnson was known for his contentious stances on a range of issues during his stint as Britain's Prime Minister, but now a new book revealed what the politician really thought about "woke" King Charles's viewpoints on the U.K.'s colonial past.

In his forthcoming book Out: How Brexit Got Done And The Tories Were Undone, political writer Tim Shipman detailed how Johnson disagreed with The King on addressing slavery.

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