How many marks out of 10 does Charles deserve after his first year on the throne? | Catherine Bennett

Let's see: he has brought Andrew back into public life, managed to grow his hair longer and, er...

Now it's a year since a glut of articles asking what kind of king will Charles be?", maybe it's not too soon for a first appraisal. Even allowing for the coronation - you try finding a conductor who doesn't have anger management issues - some differences in reigning quality should by now be evident.

Has he met expectations? It's not as if Charles lacked time or opportunities to plan for a job that, although it dawned on him early with the most ghastly inexorable sense", he never decided, like his reputation as a bit of a reformer, to repudiate.

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