King Charles at Easter vs at Ramadan; The Anglican Bishop’s Plea for Charles to Save Christianity in Britain

The titular head of the Church of England did not deliver an Easter message this year. (“Buckingham Palace Confirms King Charles Will Not Issue Easter message this year.”) Charles was not so reticent during Ramadan a few weeks back, going on social media and “Wishing all Muslims in the UK, the Commonwealth and around the world a blessed and peaceful Ramadan.” The King also hosted an iftar at Buckingham Palace to celebrate Ramadan in 2025.

King Charles has not been shy about his great admiration for Islam. He has praised it profusely while condemning Christians for hatred and bigotry against Muslims. Not only did Charles apologize for the Crusades, but he has also expressed his respect for Muslim claims to a permanent caliphate in Spain, since the Moors conquered the Iberian peninsula fair and square - before the reconquesta restored Christianity to that part of Europe. Charles has condemned Christians for misunderstanding sharia, and also for misunderstanding our lying eyes when we are appalled at the sight of a woman in a burqa.

In Charles’ 2024 Christmas address, the King was contemptuous of those who engaged in “anger and lawlessness” following the Southport knife attack, but he had not a word of criticism for the attackers. 13 people were stabbed in that incident. The dead included three children under the age of 10. King Charles made it abundantly clear that his sympathies were with the knife wielders, not their victims.

Charles is also famously enamored of another non-Christian religion, the climate cult, throwing his support behind the goal of a net zero future, which would impose a lower standard of living and crippling energy costs on his subjects.

While I have no great affection for British royalty, the institution should serve as a bulwark to protect Christianity against an emerging caliphate. King Charles is the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, and his royal duties include protection of the Christian faith therein. The King has clearly abdicated that role.

Anglican Bishop Ceirion Dewar recently published a widely distributed letter to King Charles, addressing the existential crisis resulting from Britain surrendering its Christian heritage.

I’ve posted the entire transcript of the letter below the fold, but here are a few quotes that capture the gravity of the letter:

• “I write to you neither as a politician nor as a commentator, but as one of your loyal subjects who, as a bishop of Christ’s Church, cannot remain silent while the Christian foundations of this kingdom are steadily dismantled.”

• “And so, I write to say this, Your Majesty: The Christian character of this nation is under profound and accelerating assault. If the Crown does not stand visibly and courageously in defence of that inheritance, history will record that the guardians of Britain’s institutions watched in silence as the foundations were removed.”

The full letter is below, but first, I have a crazy, absurd idea as to how Prince Harry, of all people, could be a savior to his homeland when he finally cuts his losses and terminates his regrettable marriage.

Harry is a lost man, the legal son of the King, but not in line to the throne, and questioned if he is actually a true family member from the royal bloodline. He was apparently happiest in life when he was just another bloke hanging with his military buddies. He struggled in a royal role, and he has struggled even worse trying to be the pet-husband of a Hollywood AWFL.

A liberated Harry would have the opportunity to return to Britain as “the People’s Prince,” fighting for traditional British Christian values on behalf of the commoners his father sneers at. These are people being condemned to a hostile, immigrant occupation with King Charles’ consent. Having a castaway member of the royal family come to their defense might make a difference in saving the country.

Now, here is the full letter from Bishop Dewar:

To: His Majesty, Charles III, King of the United Kingdom and the Realms, Supreme Governor of the Church of England, Bearer of the ancient title Defender of the Faith.

Your Majesty,

I write to you neither as a politician nor as a commentator, but as one of your loyal subjects who, as a bishop of Christ’s Church, cannot remain silent while the Christian foundations of this kingdom are steadily dismantled.

Sir, there are moments in the life of a nation when silence becomes a form of betrayal. If I refused to speak to Your Majesty now, this would be such a moment.

For more than a thousand years the Crown of this realm has stood in solemn covenant with the Christian faith.

The laws of this land were shaped by it.
The liberties of our people were nurtured by it.
The conscience of our civilisation was formed by it.

From the abbeys of medieval England to the parish churches of our villages, from the preaching of the Reformers to the missionary zeal that carried the Gospel to the ends of the earth, the Christian faith has not merely influenced Britain — it has defined her.

Yet today that inheritance is being quietly but deliberately eroded. Across the institutions of this nation there is a growing hostility toward the faith that built them.

Christian belief is mocked in the public square. Christian morality is dismissed as intolerance. Christian institutions are pressured to surrender doctrine in order to conform to the ideology of the age.

Within the very Church that bears the name of England, voices have arisen that appear more eager to mirror the spirit of the age than to proclaim the eternal truth of the Gospel.

Meanwhile, beyond the walls of our churches, powerful political movements openly speak of removing Christianity from its historic place within the life of this nation.

What would once have been whispered is now proclaimed openly: that Britain must become a post-Christian state.

It is in this context that I write to you, Your Majesty. For the British Crown does not stand apart from this crisis.

The Sovereign of this realm bears a title that is not merely historic but sacred in its origin and meaning: Defender of the Faith. Those words are not decorative. They are a charge.

They speak of a monarch whose duty is not merely to preside over the ceremonies of the Church, but to stand as a guardian of the Christian inheritance of the nation.

Yet many among your subjects now ask, with increasing anxiety: “Who will defend that inheritance today?”

They see a nation drifting from its foundations. And they ask whether the Crown will remain silent while that inheritance is dismantled.

Your Majesty, may I be so bold as to observe that your coronation oath was not a poetic formality. It was a solemn vow made before Almighty God to maintain and preserve the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law.

Those words bind the conscience of the sovereign. They remind the Crown that its authority is not merely constitutional but moral. The monarch is not merely a symbol of national continuity, but a custodian of the spiritual inheritance that shaped this realm.

History records moments when kings and emperors were confronted by the Church and reminded that their authority was accountable before God. In the fourth century Ambrose of Milan stood before the Emperor Theodosius I and reminded him that even the ruler of an empire must bow before the moral law of Christ.

That tradition of prophetic witness has never disappeared. Nor should it. For when rulers forget the foundations upon which their authority rests, the Church must speak — not with hostility, but with holy clarity.

And so, I write to say this, Your Majesty: The Christian character of this nation is under profound and accelerating assault.

If the Crown does not stand visibly and courageously in defence of that inheritance, history will record that the guardians of Britain’s institutions watched in silence as the foundations were removed.

The issue before us is not nostalgia. It is civilisation. Remove Christianity from the story of Britain and you do not create a neutral society — you create a moral vacuum. And history teaches us that moral vacuums are never left empty for long.

Your Majesty now stands at a crossroads that few monarchs in modern history have faced.

For the erosion of Britain’s Christian inheritance will not ultimately be judged by speeches made in Parliament or debates in the press. It will be judged by whether those entrusted with the guardianship of our ancient institutions chose to defend them — or merely preside over their quiet surrender.

You may preside over the quiet dissolution of Britain’s Christian identity. Or you may rise to the ancient responsibility entrusted to the Crown and speak with clarity about the faith that built this kingdom. The first path requires little courage. The second will require a great deal. But it is the path that history honours.

Your Majesty’s subjects are not asking for religious coercion. They are asking for leadership. They are asking that the sovereign who bears the title Defender of the Faith remember what that title means.

They are asking that the Crown hear the growing cry of anguish from Christians across this land who feel that the spiritual inheritance of their nation is being surrendered without resistance. And they are asking whether the Crown will stand with them.

For the faith that shaped Britain is not merely a cultural ornament. It is the wellspring from which our laws, our liberties, and our moral imagination have flowed. If it is cast aside, the nation will discover — too late — that it has severed itself from the very roots that sustained it.

Your Majesty, to many the Crown is a symbol of authority. But before God it is also a symbol of stewardship. And stewardship carries with it the duty to defend what has been entrusted.

May Almighty God grant Your Majesty the wisdom to discern this hour, and the courage to fulfil the sacred duty entrusted to the Crown.

Yours faithfully,
Bishop Ceirion H. Dewar FSHC
Missionary Bishop Diocese of Providence
Confessing Anglican Church

posted by Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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