King Charles III has come under fire from Christians for not delivering an Easter message this year.
The Royal Family shared a post on social media celebrating Easter Sunday, following Buckingham Palace’s announcement that the King will not issue a message.
It featured an image of a cross with a graphic reading: “Happy Easter. He is risen!”
Additional text said: “Wishing a joyous Easter Sunday to Christians celebrating in the UK, the Commonwealth and around the world today.”
Most of the royals attended an Easter Sunday service at St George’s Chapel, Windsor.
Prince Andrew and his daughters were not among them.
IMMENSE CRITICISM OVER THE ABSENCE OF A ROYAL EASTER SPEECH
There has been immense criticism surrounding the absence of the monarch making a speech for Easter.
Charles who is not required to share a message, previously did so in 2024 with a pre-recorded speech played at the Maundy service, and in 2025 with a full written message published on the Royal Family’s website.
His mother Queen Elizabeth II gave just one Easter message in her entire 70-year reign, and that was during the pandemic in 2020.
But times are changing amid increasing recognition of Islam over Christianity as evidenced by the King commemorating Ramadan with a statement in February.
“LACK OF A ROYAL EASTER MESSAGE IS BITTERLY DISAPPOINTING”
Ceirion H. Dewar, a traditionalist Anglican bishop, wrote an open letter to the king last month, warning that the Christian heritage of the UK.is being “deliberately eroded”.
He contends it faces growing hostility amid surging Islam. His letter received more than 8,000 signatures in support.
“There isn’t a royal precedent for releasing a message, but since coming to the throne, Charles has chosen to do so every year,” he said. “
“Having just issued a Ramadan and Eid Mubarak message for the Islamic community, choosing not to give an Easter message is bitterly disappointing.”
“CHRISTIANS WILL BE HEARTBROKEN AT BEING IGNORED BY THE MONARCH”
“It does not meet the expectations you would expect from the monarch,” he added.
“Christians will be heartbroken, having learned the defender of the faith has ignored them.”
Bishop Dewar suggested that the historically Protestant English monarch neglecting to issue a statement commemorating the most important Christian holiday is “so much worse” than simply being syncretistic.
“YOU ARE OF NO USE TO THIS COUNTRY, WHATSOEVER”
Godfrey Bloom, an English author and former member of the European Parliament, was far less respectful.
He accused King Charles of betraying his constitutional role and urged him to abdicate.
“You are of no use to this country whatsoever,” Mr. Bloom declared.
“You have failed in every conceivable way in your relatively short period of time on the throne.”
“In the name of God, go!” he added, quoting Oliver Cromwell’s famous line to the Rump Parliament in the wake of the English Civil War in 1653.
“MAYBE THE USEFULNESS OF THE HOUSE OF WINDSOR HAS COME TO AN END”
Gavin Ashenden, who served as chaplain to Queen Elizabeth from 2008 to 2017 before leaving the Church of England for Roman Catholicism, also questioned the usefulness of Charles and his royal house if he is unwilling to fulfill his oath to be a defender of the Christian faith.
His message to the King was: “if you cannot find it in your heart on Easter day to wish your Christian country well on a feast of Christ’s resurrection, then maybe you ought to be doing something else in life.”
“Maybe the span of the usefulness of the house of Windsor has come to an end,” he added.
Mr. Ashenden issued a 15-minute video statement rebuking the King for neglecting an Easter message, as Christianity evaporates in the UK amid what he called “a moment of crisis in our civilisation.”
“IT’S EASTER YOUR MAJESTY, ENCOURAGE YOUR SUBJECTS TO LIVE THE FAITH”
“It’s Easter, your majesty. Christ is risen,” he declared in the video.
“Try saying it, perhaps, to your subjects to encourage them to live the faith, to talk the faith, to pray the faith, and to rediscover their own value in the eyes of God.”
“Is that not what a king ought to do at a time like this?”
Mr. Ashenden departed his role as the queen’s chaplain after publicly protesting that St. Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow, marked the Feast of the Epiphany by reciting verses from the Quran denying Christ’s divinity.
He suggested that exclusive claims of Christianity are not palatable to King Charles because they contradict the multicultural relativism that has become his de facto religion
LACK OF A ROYAL EASTER MESSAGE “MISINTERPRETED”
Stephen Kuhrt, who serves as the Anglican vicar of Christ Church, New Malden in England, sought to bring some balance to the debate.
He believes the King’s lack of an Easter message was ill-advised, but is being misinterpreted.
“If the King was going to make a speech about Islam in the current climate, perhaps he would have been well-advised to have done something Christian as well,”
“But I genuinely don’t think that it was intended the way people have been interpreting it,” he said.
“I can understand why people are upset in the current climate, but I don’t think that was the intention: to denigrate Christianity.”
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