Irish Examiner View: Difficult example of royal predecessors

It is not too early to consider what kind of monarch Charles III will be, and whether he will have a more propitious tenure than his predecessors.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II helped to heal her nation and peoples in the commonwealth after the trauma of the Second World War. Picture: PA Wire

From the perspective of the British, the country has demonstrated resilience during its two Elizabethan ages. 

During the first, the threat from the Spanish Armada was seen off and the age of Shakespeare ushered in. Elizabeth I was projected as Gloriana, the “Virgin Queen” and delivered one of the most dynamic alpha female speeches of all time before her troops at Tilbury: "I have the body of a weak, feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a King of England too."