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23 Green (salad
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29 Shut-eye
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palindrome
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record
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43 Game with
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45 Oneofeightonan
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12 Wealth
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rises from
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Rose”
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Destiny’s Child
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The coronavirus threat was made
alarmingly vivid Wednesday to millions
of people in the United Kingdom with
the news that Prince Charles has con-
tracted the virus, albeit in mild form.
Already reeling from anxiety and un-
certainty, this announcement from
Clarence House suddenly brought home
to the British the stakes for the future as
COVID-19 continues its seemingly inex-
orable march around the globe.
Americans might wonder: Why is
this such a big deal? However imperfect
the analogy, they should think of this in
the same way they would greet news
that the vice president of the United
States had tested positive.
The Prince of Wales, 71, is Britain’s
future head of state as King Charles III.
He is first in line after his mother, Queen
Elizabeth II, who turns 94 next month. If
anything happens to them, his elder
son, Prince William Duke of Cambridge,
37, would become King William V.
“It is unequivocally important,” says
Sally Bedell Smith, the acclaimed Amer-
ican biographer of multiple royals, in-
cluding Charles. “It’s a very big deal be-
cause Charles is the heir apparent and if
anything happens to him, then his son
will become the heir apparent and will
be next in line.”
Even though the monarch has no
overt power in a constitutional monar-
chy, Smith says the British monarch is
still crucial to the functioning of the
British government, as the head of the
military, for instance. If the heir to the
crown is suddenly threatened, it’s un-
settling to say the least, Smith says.
Moreover, millions of Brits have
known no other heir than Prince
Charles, the longest-serving Prince of
Wales in British history.
“The British have a relationship with
Prince Charles, most of us do not re-
member another heir,” says Victoria Ar-
biter, the British-born CNN royal com-
mentator, who is the daughter of one of
the queen’s former press secretaries.
“Prince Charles has been in all our living
rooms, he was just always there, he’s
part of the fabric of British life.”
True, there have always been critics

who dreamed that the crown would by- pass Charles and go directly to William, at least since Charles’ messy divorce from William’s mother, the late Princess Diana, in 1996, followed by her shocking death in a Paris car wreck in 1997. But a constitutional monarchy doesn’t work like that in the absence of revolution or tragedy. So it’s no surprise the British would be worried: Suddenly, this scenario seems less far-fetched. And it happens to come just as Charles’ standing among his future sub- jects has soared, as his years of filling in for his mother, his prodigious charity work and his obvious happiness with second wife, Duchess Camilla of Corn- wall, 72, have improved his public pro- file. (She has tested negative and is with Charles in isolation at Birkhall, his estate at Balmoral in Scotland.) “In recent years, he’s become the na- tion’s favorite granddad, and people are grasping now that he was preaching about climate change, preaching about religious tolerance over 40 years ago,” says Arbiter. “Yes, he was ridiculed, yes, he was loathed at times. But his popularity has skyrocketed in recent years. People were thrilled to see him escort Meghan (Markle) down the aisle at (her wedding

to Prince Harry in 2018), so from a huge number of people, there’s more under- standing of him now.” Of course, he still has critics, includ- ing those who detest the monarchy in general. “Can all journalists please not repeat the lie that Charles met the criteria for testing. He didn’t. We wish him well, but this is a national crisis in which we all have a stake and in which we all risk los- ing loved ones. Now is the time for equal access to medicine. No exceptions,” tweeted the main republican organiza- tion, Republic. So far, Charles is said to be experi- encing mild symptoms. Smith says he’s in remarkably good shape for his age. “He’s as healthy a 71-year-old as you could find,” she said. “He’s very fit, he walks a lot, he’s outdoors a lot, he exer- cises regularly and eats extremely well, drinks moderately so his immune sys- tem should be fairly robust.” Camilla might be more vulnerable to illness, Smith said, as a former heavy smoker. “We’re told it’s unlikely to escalate further and we all hope that is the case,” Arbiter says. “When you see a famous figure or a royal get this virus, it brings home to everyone how we are all vulner-

able no matter who you are.” Besides worry over Charles, atten- tion naturally turns to the queen, who has been in good health generally, and her ailing husband, Prince Philip, who will be 99 in June. Both have been at Windsor Castle since last Thursday; she moved there from Buckingham Palace a week ahead of her usual Easter routine due to the virus. He was flown there from the royal Sandringham estate in Norfolk, where he has been living mostly since he re- tired in 2017. Buckingham Palace has declined to say whether either had been tested. Charles was last in the company of the queen about two weeks ago. “Her Majesty The Queen remains in good health,” the palace said in a state- ment. “The Queen last saw the Prince of Wales briefly after the investiture on the morning of the 12th March and is following all the appropriate advice with re- gard to her welfare.” At the March 9 Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey, Charles was seen greeting people with the na- maste gesture, hands together and a slight bow, instead of shaking hands. Younger royals were seen greeting people with elbow bumps. He also was seen on March 10 sitting across a table at a charity event with Prince Albert II of Monaco, who an- nounced last week that he, too, has tested positive for coronavirus. If nothing else, the coronavirus news has cast a new perspective on the recent upheaval in Britain over Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan of Sussex’s deci- sion to step down as senior working royals and move to Canada to become fi- nancially independent free royals. All that outrage and recrimination arising from “Megxit,” as the tabloids called it, “vanishes into insignificance,” says Smith. “Whatever they planned to do with their life, and I wish them well with their non-royal life, is irrelevant ,” Smith says. “What matters is Will and (Duchess) Kate and I expect they are doing what they need to do, following all advice. “He is more than ready for whatever fate brings them: He is very well pre- pared.”

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Maria Puente
USA TODAY

Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, still is cruicial to the functioning of the British government. CHRIS JACKSON/GETTY IMAGES

Prince Charles’ COVID-19 is a huge deal

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