For the kings and queens of Europe, the coronavirus pandemic is starting to look a lot like wartime
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Get it right, and the crisis could become a defining moment, an opportunity to turn an oft-maligned and increasingly antiquated institution into a source of national strength. Get it wrong, and the damage could threaten a monarch's reason to be: Why have a royal house if it can’t help the people in their darkest hour?
In Sweden, King Carl Gustaf, who is 73, sought to address people of his own age who are at most risk from the coronavirus but who have at times bridled at new limits on their freedom. Still, recent history has shown that speeches by royals in times of war and other times of crisis or emergency tend to help the reputation of a royal house and boost morale in the country.
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