Patt Morrison: Can King Charles put Queen Elizabeth’s legacy behind him and craft his own?
It’s quicker to list the similarities than the differences in character and personality between Queen Elizabeth II and her successor, King Charles III, but despite the basic singularity of their shared destinies, it is not such a long list:
Their mutual — and seemingly — perpetual duty to the royal role.
Their shared inclination and instinct for the traditional. Charles’ first wife, Diana, chafed at him for dressing and acting much older than his years and tried to get him to lighten up — at least shed the fuddy-duddy lace-up shoes and put on a pair of loafers, for heaven’s sake.
Their life’s work — the throne.
But from the cradle to the moment of wearing St. Edward’s Crown in Westminster Abbey, their lives and temperaments diverged.
Elizabeth, born in 1926, grew up as a princess, but was a long shot
