"I don't think anyone has high expectations"

“In both America and in Britain they are going to see her not just as the greatest monarch there ever has been, but also someone who set an impossibly high standard for any other monarch to follow. We now have King Charles III,” Larman told the Just the News, Not Noise television show. “I don’t think the early reaction to him has been of particular excitement.

“The bar has been set too high. How do you follow that? Seventy glorious years,” he added.

Larman said Charles’ difficult divorce from Princess Diana, his bumpy effort to sell his second wife Camilla to the British public and his youngest son’s marriage to American actress Meghan Markle and the tell-all interviews and expected book to follow all add to the new king’s early challenges as does his age at 73.

“If you take the Queen’s motto of never complain, never explain, he is a very different figure because he has complained a lot and he has explained a lot. So we know a lot more about him,” he said.

Larman said Charles likely is to be viewed as a “transitional monarch” holding the throne for his eldest son William. “I don’t think anyone has high expectations,” he added.