Kehinde Andrews, a professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University, questions whether the people of Britain and the Empire's successor, the Commonwealth, really want a 74-year-old white man as their representative. More fundamentally, some in Britain's increasingly diverse society want a re-examination of the monarchy's links to the trade in enslaved Africans and its role in the former British Empire, which ruled over large parts of Asia, Africa and the Caribbean. And the royal family is riven with controversy as Charles' younger son, Prince Harry, lobs criticism from his base in Southern California. Britain is gripped by double-digit inflation that is eroding living standards and making some people question the expense of the coronation. Opinion polls show that support for the monarchy has weakened over time.
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