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Matt Cooper: Michael D and Charles cut from different cloth but share a penchant for speaking out
The two heads of state have some common ground in their world view but while our President regularly crosses the line with his pronouncements, since becoming king, Charles has had to stay quiet
How King Charles of Britain must envy the allowances made for his counterpart as a head of state, President Michael D Higgins of Ireland. The former is required by his position to stay quiet publicly and never express an opinion on political matters; our President is allowed to be vocal and while he too is supposed to avoid controversy and be impartial, he crosses the line regularly.
Maybe the king, now that he has been ...
