Ian Smithson
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851 appearances
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 10 May
Ian Smithson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Exactly.
which is a bit of an unreasonable because he's actually had a job the entire time.
And let's face it, for the last few years, he has effectively been the monarch because the Queen's failing health meant that she met the constitutional requirements of being Queen, but more and more of her duties were being taken over by her offspring, particularly Anne, her daughter, and Charles, who took on most of them.
The oath is that you do this until you die.
But see, rich and famous, if you're the heir to somebody else's corporate fortune.
And you don't have to do anything.
You're sitting on a- Paris Hilton.
You just party.
Exactly, yeah.
That's very different from being a member of the royal family because you have- What?
You expect things of us?
Constant duties.
Charles for his entire life has been doing two things, waiting to be king and every other shitty job that his mother didn't want to do.
His mother and father, before his father died.
And so, yeah, he would have been attending any number of things, just representing Britain or representing the royal family.
But in addition to that, he had a whole lot of charities that he ran and a whole lot of environmental work that he used to do, which is going to be interesting to see how much of that he can keep doing as king, because now...
As the monarch, he has a constitutional requirement to not interfere with government.
Okay.
So, and whatever interfering means, because he had some fairly sort of left-wing views around conservation, both of-
the natural environment, but also building heritage and those sort of things.
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