"Continuity; he's not going to go in there and start being different to his mum," says Sir John Peace, characterising the King Charles he knows very fondly, following the death of Queen Elizabeth II at 96.
"I think that's a good thing right now," he adds. "Don't forget the backdrop to all of this is the fuel crisis, the energy crisis we have, the food shortages and so on. I think right now it is important we do come together."
Sir John is one of Nottinghamshire's most prominent businessmen who was selected as the sovereign's representative for the county in 2012, having been knighted for his services to the business and voluntary sectors a year before. As the son of a coal miner in Mansfield, he went on to help set up Experian in the 1980s, and now acts as the Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire on the Monarch's behalf.
