King Charles Is Failing to Defend the Faith

Last week King Charles III, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, neglected to put out a statement celebrating Easter. This is not abnormal in the history of the modern British monarchy; Queen Elizabeth only delivered one Easter message in her 70 year reign. What is abnormal is Charles III’s pattern of marking Muslim holidays like Ramadan and Eid while sidestepping Christian ones. For Holy Week in 2025, Buckingham Palace released a message on Maundy Thursday that strangely included praise of Islam’s “deep human instinct.” For Ramadan, Charles put out messages of support to British Muslims, packaged dates for Muslim families, and for the first time in its 1000 year history, opened Windsor Castle to Muslims breaking their fast.