Enter the twilight of the world's longest reign. The 96-year old Queen of England missing what is arguably the highlight of any British monarch's calendar, the reading of the government's parliamentary program instead delivered by her son the crown prince. The importance is mostly symbolic, after all the Queen's Speech is written by the prime minister. However the optics of the exercise beget the question: what United Kingdom will Charles inherit?

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