Gavin Ashenden’s recent post in respect of the King’s Christmas Message 2022 asks whether the King has sowed the destruction of the House of Windsor. Later in the post, Dr Ashenden states that the King is making a shift from being a Protestant Christian monarch to 21st-century relativism, that this represents an abandonment of his faith, and that “the shibboleths of multi-culturalism are not Christianity.”
To me, however, the speech came over rather differently. The one I heard began with the King making reference to his late mother’s belief in the power of the Light of God in Christ, before explaining that it is his own belief in the power of that Light that makes him have faith in people, because that Light gives people the “extraordinary ability” to touch the lives of other people with “goodness” and “compassion” and to “shine a light in the world around them”.
