King Phillipe speaks out about Gaza
2025-07-26 11:22:34 +01:00 by Mark Smith
It‘s a bit of a strange thing when a monarch speaks out like this. The thing to remember is it doesn‘t happen very often. And so people stop, and they listen, and then they go back to going about their lives. But when they go back to their lives something is a bit different. It‘s not wildly different, it‘s actually very much the same.
Yet something is somehow different, in the space between people. It‘s very difficult to describe. It‘s not like you have to necessarily agree with the King, it‘s more like, somebody that you regard highly is saying, look this thing that is happening here, is important, it‘s really really important. There is a gravity to it, time slows down for a moment. And so even if it might not have an obvious immediate effect, it sort of does. #