'Risky time for Royal Family as Prince Charles rules in all but name', says ex-minister

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Royal Family is entering precarious territory as Prince Charles has now effectively taken over from the Queen and become an unofficial Prince Regent, according to a royal commentator.It comes as the 95-year-old monarch is forced to give up more public appearances over concerns about her health, with doubts increasing over whether she will be able to take part in her own Platinum Jubilee celebrations.More questions have now been raised by Norman Baker, a former Transport minister and Liberal Democrat MP, who said the current situation is a 'risky' one for The Firm.Speaking to GB News, the ex-politician and royal critic said: “Clearly the Queen is not very well and suffering I think from post-Covid symptoms, she is 95, 96 on Thursday this week.“It’s not surprising she can’t do what she used to do but we have in fact now got a regency in all but name.

The Queen is doing very little in terms of public engagements, we’re talking about light duties.Mr Baker said he understood that the "light duties" she had taken on are "very light indeed", and that she had "not been out really, apart from on one occasion, since October”.“What’s happening is effectively that we now have Prince Charles and Prince William stepping up and undertaking the Queen’s duties and that’s where we’re at,” he added.The 1937 Regency Act allows the monarch to relinquish some of their royal powers if he or she feels unable to fully perform the required royal duties.A regency arrangement has only ever officially been used in 1810, when 'mad' King George III became mentally incapacitated and his eldest son, George IV, took over as Prince Regent for a decade.However, Mr Baker however told the news channel that he thought a historical repeat was unlikely to take.