Kate Hawkesby: We expect and want royals to be just like us, but are they really?

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Sep 14, 2022 · 3m

I think if anything symbolized how stressful and exhausting this week has been for the new monarch, it was ‘Pengate’.

We saw a very tense, irritated King Charles, flustered that his pen was leaking, and with it all captured on microphone, we got to hear just how annoyed he was.

Some media labelled it ‘rude’ others referred to him as ‘losing his Royal cool’.

This new incident off the back of a previous pen mishap he’d days earlier when he wanted his desk cleared and motioned angrily at his aides to do it, is a reminder, as if we needed it, that he is under phenomenal pressure, in trying…