With polling moving against the institution, especially among Scots, young people and ethnic minorities, King’s performance is seen as key
It was days before another royal funeral – albeit a ceremonial one for Diana, Princess of Wales, 25 years ago – when Tony Blair realised the monarchy was facing an almost unprecedented existential threat.
“I was worried,” he has since said of a time when the royals were perceived to be coldly indifferent to the public mood. One poll indicated that as many as one in four were in favour of a republic.
