we are joined by cbs news royal contributor aman amanda forman amanda good morning to you let me start with king charles iii what lies ahead for him what do you expect from his reign as king first of all we are expecting continuity this is a man in his 70s and he is committed to continuing the stability and traditions of of that his mother had set but actually we're also going to expect some headwinds there has been uh no real questioning of the value of the monarchy during the queen's reign in respect for her longevity but
these questions are going to come up and he's going to have to answer them and he's been known as a modernizer during prior to ascending or taking over on the throne so do you expect that to have a role in his reign very much so and you can see that in the slimmed down monarchy that he's been talking about it's going to be a much smaller family that we'll be focusing on and although he said that he's going to be stepping back from some of the causes that he supports nevertheless he will be pushing those
causes in particular climate change when you say running into headwinds do you mean that people will then more people question whether there's a need for the monarchy that is right there is a strain of republicanism in great britain and people people held it back to some extent while the queen was alive and those questions are now going to come up and they're not going to be afraid to discuss it in the way that they were before yeah thinking about that as we look back at the legacy of queen elizabeth how will you view how will
it be viewed both in the short term and through that lens when so many people do still view the commonwealth as one of the last vestiges of colonialism well it's very interesting because the queen's legacy is many and varied but one of the most important things that she did was that she helped to reconcile britain's very difficult past with the present and she she started that off in 2011 when she went to ireland and she offered quite a fulsome apology for for a royal and that helped to really as they say bury the hatchet and
the irish were surprised by just how much they warmed to her and once you started that it began and it's very important a kind of truth and reconciliation for the past you know i think it was liz palmer read one of the notes and thank you for your service ma'am i mean as simple as that how are britain's looking at the queen 70 years how to even put it in context but what is that feeling now that she's gone after so long it's this terrible sense of being bereft there's this black hole in people's lives
that they sometimes even know it existed in the first place that she was so present so strong and to lose her it's like losing this incredible stability and people are very upset people have been crying and understandably so on the notion of that stability i this has been noted but i just thought it was remarkable the first prime minister that elizabeth swore in was winston churchill who was born in 1874 the last she swore in was liz truss who was born in 1975. i and as they look back and and are bereft and are very
sad they can also celebrate that's that iron-clad stability that she brought that's right we often forget because we live in such a modern age where social media gives us news you know 24 hours a day every second that as human beings we need traditions we need customs we need rituals they help to connect us to the present day and that's what the queen brought was that she reminded us that we have a past and that it's okay you know it's everything's going to be okay because of the continuity that she presented yeah i still can't
believe she's gone we knew it was coming but the day has come yes amanda foreman thank you very much stay with cbs news as the world continues its remembrance of queen elizabeth tomorrow cbs sunday morning takes a deep dive on britain's longest-serving monarch from her homes to her pets and even how she was portrayed on the screen
