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What If? Documentary:

Royal Dissent  
It has been a year now since King Charles III ripped up the text of the King’s Speech at the opening of parliament and declared, live on television, that he would be running the country directly for the next twelve months. He did not have a reputation for being able to handle the media but on this occasion he seems to have handled the ‘coup’ superbly. He had already prepared his supporters in the beleaguered British press.

What could anyone do? The Prime Minister could hardly get up there and thump him. What TV mogul was going to pull the plug on the most momentous live television broadcast in the country’s history? There he was live on TV telling the country that he was going to take over and give himself a year to sort things out. There are now two weeks to go until his promised date for handing back power and still the date for the election has not been fixed.

False Witness talks to people who have been affected both for good and bad by the extraordinary events of the last year.


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