Queen's former chaplain warns 'multicultural, multi-faith' King Charles III threatens British monarchy - Fox News

The erstwhile chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II warned that the multifaith multiculturalism of King Charles III threatens to destruct his ain location and enactment an extremity to the British monarchy.

"I deliberation that if this dilatory question into multiculturalism and multifaith goes on, we'll suffer the monarchy, due to the fact that successful the end, I don't deliberation it volition beryllium existent to itself," Gavin Ashenden, who served arsenic chaplain to the queen from 2008 to 2017, told British outlet GB News connected Sunday.

Ashenden made his comments successful effect to the king's archetypal Royal Christmas Message since assuming the throne upon the decease of his parent successful September.

"The occupation is that it's a spot similar watching a fantastic vessel that's hulled beneath the waterline dilatory sink, and astatine immoderate constituent what you privation to bash is to halt it sinking and marque definite that it floats," Ashenden said. "And I don't deliberation the monarchy tin interval if it becomes a multicultural, multifaith monarchy."

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Acknowledging King Charles III did "exceptionally well" with his archetypal Christmas address, Ashenden said that British subjects person nevertheless been witnessing "a precise slow, gradual displacement from being a Christian monarchy to a multifaith one."

"The occupation is that you're either defender of the religion oregon you're not," referencing the oath the British monarch takes to support the Protestant religion.

The British monarch, among different duties, serves arsenic the supreme politician of the Church of England.

"There's truthful overmuch astir Christianity that is conscionable straight liable for our mode of beingness successful our culture," said Ashenden, who went connected to pass that Christians successful the U.K. are progressively marginalized.

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If King Charles III refuses to basal up for the historical religion of his nation, Ashenden predicted successful his nonfiction that helium volition person "sown the seeds of demolition of the House of Windsor." (WPA POOL)

Ashenden, who quit his chaplaincy position successful 2017 aft condemning recitations of the Koran during an Epiphany work astatine St. Mary's Cathedral successful Glasgow, noted however Christianity is progressively being pushed retired of the nationalist quadrate due to the fact that of its exclusive claims amid a "serious contention for power."

"So, the occupation that we're having astatine the infinitesimal is that Christianity is nether assault," Ashenden said. "Now the question is, what does a Christian king bash astir that? Does a Christian king prevention Christianity? Does helium go defender of the faith, which is what his rubric truly is? Or, arsenic Charles has done with a sleight-of-hand, say, 'No, I'm … defender of each faiths, which means I don't person to support Christianity.'"

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During his Royal Christmas Message, King Charles touched upon his precise important travel to Bethlehem successful 2020. (YouTube/The Royal Family)

"If you don't support Christianity today, we'll suffer it from this country," Ashenden added, noting the caller lawsuit of a Christian woman who was precocious arrested for praying silently extracurricular an termination session successful Birmingham.

"The occupation we look is simply a superior struggle of values, and determination can't beryllium a solution by conscionable saying, 'Do you cognize what? All the values are the same, let's unreal everything is nice,'" the erstwhile chaplain said. "I don't deliberation bully volition chopped it."

King Charles III (Jonathan Brady/Pool Photo via AP/File)

Ashenden, who yet near the Church of England and became a Roman Catholic, besides penned an op-ed successful the Catholic Herald informing that Christianity successful the U.K. "is buckling nether the relentless regular battle that an progressively hostile secularism is directing towards it."

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If King Charles III refuses to basal up for the historical religion of his nation, Ashenden predicted successful his nonfiction that helium volition person "sown the seeds of demolition of the House of Windsor."