Because if you become the sovereign, then you play the role in the way that it is expected," he said. "You only have to look at Shakespeare plays, 'Henry V' or 'Henry IV' part I and 2, to see the change that can take place. The new king has said he will take a different approach as monarch from his opinionated time as prince, telling the BBC in 2018 it was "complete nonsense" to suggest he would be openly political, because "I'm not that stupid." As the seminal 19th century essayist Walter Bagehot wrote in 1867, the British sovereign has "three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn." The king or queen does have weekly meetings with the prime minister. If it did, there would be a political crisis. But those are all rubber-stamping ceremonial tasks so far, there has been no question that the crown might try to intervene. They appoint governments, reopen Parliament after recess and approve new laws.
So monarchs are Britain's head of state but hold no real direct political power. What makes his opinions potentially tricky is the fact that Britain has a constitutional monarchy, which is very different from the type of absolute monarchies that wield total, undemocratic political power in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states.
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