King’s defence

John Roughan (Weekend Herald, September 17): I suspect if you had just lost a beloved parent and had the public, the press, TV cameras watching your every move; dashed the length and breadth of the United Kingdom, greeting hundreds of people also grieving; taken several turns at the vigils in the cathedrals in Scotland and England where your parent was lying in state; marched down the streets behind your parent’s coffin with thousands watching your every move. All this, while grieving.

If then, at the age of 73, you were handed a leaky pen to sign a historic document, my guess is your behaviour would be far worse than King Charles’ was in that situation. Give the king a break.

Shirley-Ann McCrystal, Ora¯kei. ¯