King Charles and Keir Starmer are not seeing eye to eye on new policies.
Angela Levin claims Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has put his relationship with the Queen in jeopardy after announcing his plans for the UK.
The new Prime Minister has introduced more than 30 new bills for the next Labour government, which will be presented to the King at the opening of Parliament this week.
One of the proposals includes Mr Starmer’s pledge to reform the House of Lords by asking all hereditary peers over the age of 80 to abdicate.
Royal biographer Angela Levin told GB News that the Prime Minister’s actions have “uncomfortable” the King and could cause a rift between the pair.
Giving details about the King’s Speech, Mr Levin told GB News: “Prince Charles opened Parliament and had to read the Prime Minister’s remarks.”
“The Prime Minister didn’t want a hereditary peerage and King Charles didn’t like it either. He was very uncomfortable about it.”
Mr Levin noted Starmer’s historic stance on the monarchy before he became prime minister, saying he had been “an opponent of the monarchy for a very long time”.
She added: “We may be in a dangerous situation here, or conversely, this may go away. But it’s very interesting that it’s the first thing the Prime Minister has done in reforming the House of Lords.”
Presenter Nana Acquah gave his own thoughts on the possible impact of Starmer’s decision, warning that it was “not in the right spirit” for the new Prime Minister to make such a proposal.
“King Charles being monarch is obviously hereditary so to remove something that is hereditary is not the right spirit for this country,” Nana said.
“It’s a big move to make all of a sudden and I’m curious to see what the direction is. If they’re going to reverse something that’s been decided in parliament over the years then they should have a referendum or something.”
Levin agreed, replying: “I’m telling you this because I think it’s very concerning. They seem to be in a lot of a hurry right now.”
“It’s a good start with so much to do, but we actually have to think carefully about these things and think about what kind of country the UK really is.”
“It would be a different story if a lot of the members of the House of Lords were sleeping all the time – a significant number of them are sleeping during the day – so I don’t think they should be given money. But I think maintaining that we can’t have hereditary peers is a lot more important than people have actually realised.”
