What Should King Charles Do Post-Coronation?

There is a particularly noteworthy passage from King Charles’s coronation that deserves attention in this regard. Upon being presented with a sword, the King was told,

‘With this sword do justice, stop the growth of iniquity, protect the holy Church of God and all people of goodwill, help and defend widows and orphans, restore the things that are gone to decay, maintain the things that are restored, punish and reform what is amiss, and confirm what is in good order: that doing these things you may be glorious in all virtue; and so faithfully serve our Lord Jesus Christ in this life, that you may reign for ever with him in the life which is to come. Amen.’

These are exalted and praiseworthy goals, but the question now for King Charles III, having been given these injunctions, is this: Will he do any of those things? Will he rule as a Christian monarch and lift up the downtrodden peoples that make up the United Kingdom, or will he simply reign as a passive figurehead while the members of Parliament (or, rather, the globalists who control it) continue to make a wasteland out of England, Wales, Scotland, and the rest?

There are quite a few things he could do to intervene for his people:

-He could stop the escalation of the UK’s involvement in the war in the Ukraine, call for a ceasefire, and hold negotiations to permanently end the war.

-To help lower the record rates of suicide in the UK, he could meet often with young folks and encourage them to set aside social media, which is a major driver of mental health problems, and take up more traditional and healthful activities instead. Parallel to that, he could propose a simple law preventing access to social media by minors, separate from the unwieldy Online Safety Act that seems to be going nowhere in Parliament.

-He could put an end to the reckless genetic manipulation of his people and their environment by stopping the genetic engineering of crops and livestock and the ‘human augmentation’ of UK soldiers.

And on such a list could go.

But most importantly, King Charles could encourage his people to embrace once again the Orthodox Faith of the Apostles, the original Christian faith of the peoples of the British and Irish islands – before the fateful appearance of the conquering Roman Catholics in 1066 and the chaotic, forever-splintering Protestants in 1534 – for nothing is more valuable than our union with the All-Holy Trinity.

The Anglican Church, of which King Charles is now the head, will be nearing extinction over the next few decades. St Raphael of Brooklyn (+1915), the great Syrian evangelist of North America, helps us understand why when he writes in a letter from 1912,

‘I am convinced that the doctrinal teaching and practices as well as the discipline of the whole Anglican Church are unacceptable to the Holy Orthodox Church. I make this apology for the Anglicans whom as Christian gentlemen I greatly revere, that the loose teachings of a great many of the prominent Anglican theologians are so hazy in their definition of truths, and so inclined toward pet heresies that it is hard to tell what they believe. The Anglican Church as a whole has not spoken authoritatively on her doctrine. Her Catholic minded members can call out her doctrines from many views, but so nebulistic is her pathway in the doctrinal world that those who would extend a hand of both Christian and ecclesiastical fellowship dare not, without distrust, grasp the hand of her theologians, for while many are orthodox on some points, they are quite heterodox on others. I speak, of course, from the Holy Orthodox Eastern Catholic point of view. The Holy Orthodox Church has never perceptibly changed from Apostolic times, and, therefore, no one can go astray in finding out what she teaches. Like her Lord and Master, though at times surrounded with human malaria — which He in mercy pardons — she is “the same yesterday, and today, and forever” (Hebrews 13:8) … the mother and safe deposit of “the truth as it is in Jesus” (Eph.4:21).’

The collapse of the Church of England should not be considered anything extraordinary. Any ‘church’ that has its foundation in the disordered passions of a man (in this case, King Henry VIII) is bound to fall apart at some point. Its outward death in our time is simply a manifestation of the inner death it underwent centuries ago.

But King Charles III has many examples of the opposite nature he could look to as guides to emulate. Beloved, God-bearing, right-believing kings of the English – St Ethelbert of Kent, the first Christian king of the English, St Sigebert of East Anglia, Sts Edwin and Oswald of Northumbria, St Alfred the Great of Wessex, and others besides – often, they wearied themselves travelling, speaking, translating, writing, in order to unite their peoples to the Holy Orthodox Church.

King Charles is in a unique position to join those good kings in this best of works, for his own connections to the Orthodox Faith are well-known, and made themselves quite visible (or audible) once again during his coronation. But so far, he has shown little interest in a project of this kind, rather in preparing a loathsome stew of religious ecumenism, an error that the ever-memorable Serbian, St Justin Popovich, called the ‘pan-heresy’.

That is unfortunate, for ‘righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people’ (Proverbs 14:34). Perhaps this shouldn’t surprise anyone, considering his close association with globalists over the years. But if he ever decided to break free from their influence and act in the best interests of his people, he would hit the roads – in his carriage, in a car, on a horse, on a train, on his own two feet – meeting with as many of his subjects as he could face-to-face, and speaking to them openly and humbly about the spiritual treasures that abound within the Orthodox Church, treasures that are not limited to the high-born but are available to all who seek after God with their whole heart.