Social media users and clerics criticised the royal family over the lack of an initial message to Christians on their religious holiday.
British King Charles III has issued an Easter message to Christians, after Buckingham Palace came under fire earlier this week for stating that he would not make one. He recently delivered greetings to Muslims on Ramadan.
The British monarch is traditionally the Supreme Governor of the Church of England.
On Thursday, GB News quoted a Buckingham Palace representative as saying that King Charles would not issue an Easter message.
The announcement drew criticism from social media users, many of whom described the king’s Easter silence as “disappointing.”
“We are hurting as a nation, we needed a message of Easter hope,” one user wrote.
Some critics took issue with the fact that, in February, the Royal family posted a message on its social media accounts marking the beginning of Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar.
“Wishing all Muslims in the UK, the Commonwealth and around the world a blessed and peaceful Ramadan,” the greeting read.
In March, as Muslims around the world celebrated Eid al-Fitr, marking the end of the month-long fast, Buckingham Palace also published a post reading, “Eid Mubarak to Muslims celebrating in the UK and around the world.”
Several British Christian clerics criticised the Royal family’s initial refusal to do the same for the country’s largest religious community.
Gavin Ashenden, a former chaplain to the late Queen Elizabeth II, issued a statement in which he suggested that the King’s silence gave his subjects the impression that the monarch “is more sympathetic to Islam.” He added that this was particularly disheartening at a time when “Christianity throughout the West – but particularly in this country, and Anglicanism above all – is beginning to sink into decay.”
Bishop Ceirion H. Dewar similarly wrote on X that the Royal family’s silence on Easter was a “grave disappointment.”
On Sunday, the Royal family ultimately released a short message to wish “a joyous Easter Sunday to Christians celebrating in the UK, the Commonwealth and around the world.”
A day late and a dollar short.
Always an afterthought of other and events…
We hope that he abdicates soon and take the cigarette-smoking hag with him but;
Will King Willy be better? Probably 1000% so, but hopium seems to be running rampant with the hope that King Willy is not corrupted by the Masonic Lodge, the ‘Church’ or the Zionist Banksters that run ‘The City of London’ financial diostrict!
That’s some pretty insane hopium your smoking there.
“King” Charlie is a great disappointment full stop.
It’s way past time to ditch the monarchy and the aristocracy and redistribute the wealth they have accumulated over centuries of rape and pillage.
The royal Imam of Buckingham Palace is head of the Anglican church.
What an absolute joke. Oh how the UK has fallen.
United arab kingdom.
The royal family has sat by in their bubble while the UK has been absolutely wrecked by globalist sell outs.
What about the pagans? Couldn’t even take a piss at the palace gardens at equinox.