The British Monarchy can claim that it has triumphantly survived the hazards of a democratic age. But does it, as its critics allege, hold back necessary change or does it provide the element of stability which binds the nation together? What is the Queen's constitutional role? Is she, in her public life, too remote from ordinary people? Can the Monarchy afford to change? Can it afford not to?
On Prince Charles's eighteenth birthday a special Panorama report by Michael Charlton.
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