The Crisis in the Monarchy
How Did it Ever Come to This?
The arrest of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor a couple of weeks ago for ‘misconduct in a public office’ sent ripple waves across the world – and may well be the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Certainly, Andrew has become one of the most reviled figures in British public life.
On hearing the news while in the foyer of her bank, Daily Mail columnist Amanda Platel reported that she shouted the news aloud and received a thunderous round of applause from the assembly there. More sobering is the possibility that the King, receiving treatment for cancer, might be clinging on to the throne by his fingernails as the monarchy appears to dangle over a precipice.
Throughout the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, I was a loyal supporter; I believed the royal family were a significant people, vested with an equally significant destiny and ultimately set in place by God and accountable to Him for their actions (as, indeed, all of us are). But with calling comes not just entitlement, excessive wealth and privilege (and certainly not the right to ride roughshod over the lives of others), but duty, servanthood and responsibility - to God as well as to the subjects of the kingdom. The Lord is, after all King over and above all earthly kings (Rev 19:16).
Queen Elizabeth II
In my booklet, Are You Ready (currently being serialised in Prophecy Today), I share a prophetic picture that was given in a prayer gathering over Pentecost weekend in 2022, of a dam that was set to break over the British Isles. It had been gradually seeping over many years, but when it collapsed there was a tidal flood of wickedness, evil, depravity and darkness such as the world had not known since the days of Noah and Lot. Our question to God at that time was why now? Who or what had been the reason the dam had been restrained? We strongly sensed that the answer was H.M. Queen Elizabeth II and that her reign would soon come to an end - which it did just three months later.
Our late Queen certainly had a great sense of duty before God to fulfil the vows she made to Him on her 21st birthday and again at her Coronation - and a strong personal Christian faith. Yet her reign wasn’t perfect: she made various errors of judgment, later regretting, for example, not visiting Aberfan in the wake of the colliery tragedy there; or not ‘reading’ the voice of the nation in the week following Diana’s death.
The late queen holds the record of being the monarch to have placed her seal on the greatest number of unrighteous anti-biblical laws in the thousand-year history of the institution.
It can certainly also be argued that she holds the record of being the monarch to have placed her seal on the greatest number of unrighteous anti-biblical laws in the thousand-year history of the institution. In 2015 Dr Clifford Hill (C & M Ministries) published a paper listing twenty-four unrighteous acts that had been passed in our nation since 1950, and as she reigned for a further 7-years following that publication, it is clear the list would be longer now. You can view this here. Surely, she must have wrestled with her conscious over some of these whilst feeling she had little choice but to pass them. The last time a monarch withheld royal assent was in 1708 when Queen Anne refused to approve the Scottish Militia Bill.
King Charles III
The mantle of the Crown, then passed to her heir, Prince Charles, who seems to be a very different character altogether.
In 1974, whilst in his mid-twenties, Charles flew himself and Lawrence van de Post - his spiritual mentor and a close friend of Lord Mountbatten – to a trysting place amongst the Elgonyi tribe on Mount Elgon in Kenya. Here he gave himself wholeheartedly to studying Elgonyi myths, witchcraft and dreams.1 It is understood this retreat changed him lastingly.2
Van de Post, himself a student of Carl Jung and his theory of the collective unconscious (occult cosmic unity), taught the prince to believe in dreams, coincidences, his own psychic intuition, the reality of the spirit world and the help of spirit gods.3 This opened a door in the person of the Prince to start exploring and embracing all manner of both psychic, occultic, paranormal, heretical and New Age doctrines and practices.
Not all of these influences were due to the influence of Van de Post. Queen Mary had apparently engaged in seances to contact her dead son, Prince George, Duke of Kent, who was killed in 1942. It is also speculated that the Queen Mother, a widow for more than 50-years, and a great influence over Charles, had also dabbled in spiritualism in trying to contact her deceased husband, George VI. Others in the King’s close family network with possible links to the psychic world are Prince Philip, Princess Margaret and Lord Mountbatten. Charles also, unwisely, feted known paedophiles Peter Ball, former Bishop of Gloucester, and Jimmy Saville.4
The royal family as a whole also have strong links to various ancient, closed organisations, each with their own secret oaths and rituals. E.g. The Order of the Garter, The Order of the Thistle and the Order of the Bath. William of Orange (William III) founded the masonic Orange Order, known for its marching season celebrating the defeat of Catholic James II’s troops at the Battle of the Boyne. The current Duke of Kent was reportedly, for many years, the highest member of Freemasonry in the country.
King Charles' personal beliefs are a hotch-potch of multi-faith and New Age beliefs.
Whilst not denying the tremendous work of the Prince’s Trust, set up in 1977 during the Queen’s Silver Jubilee year, to help support, educate, train and apprentice into work and self-employment, young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, Charles, using his close personal aide Michael Fawcett as intermediary, also cultivated friendships and donations from wealthy Middle-Eastern donors in exchange for honours, titles and British citizenship.5
Channel 4’s programme, The King, The Prince & Their Secret Millions, aired on 2nd November 2024, exposed how the King’s Duchy of Lancaster and William’s Duchy of Cornwall estates bolster their already considerable incomes, raking in a staggering £50 million from renting out land and buildings they own to public bodies such as the NHS hospitals and state schools. Under the fifty-plus years of Charles’ shrewd stewardship, the wealth of the Duchy estates grew phenomenally to the point that when inherited by William they were the wealthiest they had ever been.
It has long been rumoured that Charles was a member of the Illuminati – a pan global elite form of masonic governance. No concrete evidence exists for this; he is certainly, however, a member of the World Economic Forum, from whom the Great Reset and 2030 agenda has been adopted by the United Nations in the wake of the global pandemic. This is, in effect, a counterfeit of the biblical Year of Jubilee (see Leviticus 25).
The King is known to push for West-Islamic understanding and dialogue6 and holds an unwavering support for inter-faith harmony.7 His personal beliefs are a hotch-potch of multi-faith and New Age beliefs. At one point he questioned his own ability to swear the Coronation oath to be ‘Defender of The [Christian] Faith’, preferring instead Defender of Faiths plural. In the event he chose the former, but in doing so, he unwittingly immediately set himself up, through his own stated pluralistic beliefs, to break his oath.
God takes the whole matter very seriously, and where there is disobedience and insincerity it invokes the curses on a nation that are outlined in Deuteronomy 28 (15-68).
Scripture teaches how serious a matter it is to make a solemn vow before God and either not mean it in your heart or later regret it:
Do not be quick with your mouth, do not be hasty in your heart to utter anything before God…When you make a vow to God, do not delay to fulfil it. He has no pleasure in fools; fulfil your vow. It is better not to make a vow than to make one and not fulfil it. Do not let your mouth lead you into sin. And do not protest to the temple messenger, “My vow was a mistake.” (Ecclesiastes 5:2-7).
In addition to all this, as Prince of Wales, Charles engaged in an adulterous relationship with the then Camilla Parker-Bowles whilst married to Diana, Princess of Wales. From 1999, he and Camilla openly co-habited, eventually marrying in 2005 to the apparent relief of senior members of the royal family. It is this adulterous couple who were crowned before God in an ancient sacred, Christian, ceremony as our King and Queen in the 6th May 2023 Coronation service.
The bible says: Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. (Galatians 6:7).
God takes the whole matter very seriously, and where there is disobedience and insincerity it invokes the curses on a nation that are outlined in Deuteronomy 28 (15-68). This is why we are seeing the ‘pillar’ of the monarchy being shaken as well as all the other ‘pillars’ mentioned in these verses. Only God knows what will remain when the shaking has run its course.
David and Solomon
In seeking a biblical reflection on what is happening, I was led to consider the story of David and Solomon. David, like our late Queen, was not perfect in any way, but Psalm 51, written after the murder of Uriah and his adultery with Bathsheba, shows how he was truly humbled and set out on a fresh trajectory to seek God wholeheartedly. During his lifetime the Kingdom grew to be the richest and most powerful of its time, so much so that on Solomon’s inheritance, the fabled Queen of Sheba travelled a great distance to come and see it for herself.
This is why we are seeing the ‘pillar’ of the monarchy being shaken as well as all the other ‘pillars’ mentioned in these verses. Only God knows what will remain when the shaking has run its course.
The tragedy of the story is that Solomon simply didn’t share his father’s devotion and duty to God. He married many wives, kept many concubines, and through his own moral weakness was led into tolerance of their occult ways and practices. As a result, his own sons fell out among themselves (as, more recently, happened with William and Harry) and the Kingdom began to disintegrate. Eventually it was lost altogether and the people were carried off into exile as God’s judgement was worked out.
Prince William, Prince of Wales – Is there hope?
On Prince William’s wedding day to Princess Catherine [Middleton] on 29th April 2011, I received a vivid waking vision in which I was aware that something serious had happened in the nation and people were assembling at the railings of Buckingham Palace. Suddenly, William emerged on a white charger, dressed like a medieval knight, thrust his sword into the air and declared “I know what to do, follow me.” That was the end of the vision.
Over the years I have shared this in various meetings and have reached the conclusion that it must have something to do with the end-times. Jesus is depicted on a white charger at the head of a vast army of others also on white chargers in Revelation 19:11-16. This has made me wonder if William will, at some point, be raised up by God to lead our nation back to Him.
I know someone whose daughter shared a house with William and Catherine whilst they were at St. Andrews university together; she was a guest at their wedding and was presented to the Queen at their mutual graduation ceremony. Apparently, both William and Catherine attended the bible study groups and prayer meetings that were going on in the house they shared, and at that point in their lives were serious about exploring the Christian faith. They even wrote their own prayer to be included in their wedding service.
Royal correspondent Robert Jobson says in his 2025 book The Windsor Legacy that both the Prince and Princess have become ‘very religious’ following her cancer diagnosis of 2024, with William attending church worship services each week, which he does privately, out of the public eye.8
If we are not experiencing that peace and rest in our nation, then it could well be because we, the Church, have not sufficiently prayed for them as we are urged to do.
We are urged to pray for our kings and rulers, so ‘that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness’ (1 Timothy 2:1-3). If we are not experiencing that peace and rest in our nation, then it could well be because we, the Church, have not sufficiently prayed for them as we are urged to do.
Even as an erstwhile royalist, I have failed to consistently and systematically pray not only for the royals but for all those in authority in our nation – from the Prime Minister and cabinet right down to those who serve voluntarily on our parish councils. I once said, “We get the monarchy and the government we deserve if we don’t take seriously our mandate to pray for them.”
So, perhaps each of us should humbly search our hearts over this and repent of our apathy and failure, if necessary. Because, by default, we the Church have unintentionally contributed to the current state of our nation and institutional breakdown.
But can I also encourage you to please pray for the Prince and Princess of Wales, especially that they may both come into a living faith in Jesus Christ as Saviour and King of kings under whom they serve.
God just might want to use them to usher in a change for our nation in some way.
Endnotes
1. Dale, The Prince and the Paranormal, 1986, p.31.
2. ibid p.28.
3. Ibid.p.29.
4. Jobson, The Windsor Legacy, 2025, p.223.
5. Ibid.pp.286-287.
6. Ibid.p.183.
7. Ibid.p.191.
8. Ibid.p.299.
Sarah Winbow, 06/03/2026