Quentin Peel, Associate Fellow with the Europe Programme at Chatham House, joins FRANCE 24 to share what the queen's passing meant to him. "It's a big shock at a moment where already we're in a pretty severe national crisis, It means removing this wonderfully reassuring steadying figure [who] represented continuity. And the truth is we now have, not only a new prime minister, but we have a new king and we have an economic crisis looming more severe than we have known for many decades. And I think, therefore, it is a period of both national grief but also of national nervousness." He describes Charles as "quite experienced [as head of state] but clearly nothing to compete with the extraordinary experience of his mother who did more than 70 years on the throne."


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