A Ramadan Message During Lent Leaves Many Britons Questioning Their Leaders
Buckingham Palace had confirmed that King Charles III would not deliver a formal Easter message to the British people in 2026.
This contrasts with the warm video message he shared for Ramadan, praising Islamic fasting and unity.
The message, widely broadcast, called for healing divisions and building a better world.
For many Christians in the UK and Commonwealth, the lack of an Easter message feels deliberate. The monarch, supreme governor of the Church of England, showed warmth to one faith while staying silent on the most important celebration of the faith he is expected to defend.
This is not about following an old tradition.
Queen Elizabeth II gave a special Easter message during the COVID-19 pandemic, and King Charles shared a Maundy Thursday reflection last year that mentioned Christ before including other traditions.
This year, that pattern changed.
The Palace has said that an Easter broadcast is not an annual event like the Christmas address, but the timing, coming after a high-profile Ramadan message during Lent, has left many Britons questioning their leaders’ priorities.
The symbolism matters.
Britain’s identity and values are rooted in the Judeo-Christian heritage Easter represents: resurrection, renewal, and forgiveness.
These are the foundation of parliamentary democracy and individual freedom.
When the Crown celebrates minority faiths but downplays the main celebration of the majority, it signals a step back from tradition.
This recalls failures I’ve reported on in grooming gang scandals, where authorities hesitated to confront abusers for fear of being called “racist.”
Multicultural priorities overshadowed protection.
Now, a similar selective sensitivity appears at the Palace: a reluctance to affirm Britain’s Christian heritage as confidently as for other communities.
Demographic changes may also play a role.
Official projections show that Muslims could become the largest faith group in some major British cities within a generation.
British Muslim communities often have a stronger connection to their religious identity than many nominal Christians. In response, public institutions try to balance integration with accommodation.
Some people see this as creating a two-tier system for faith and culture, which could undermine social trust and make the historic majority feel excluded.
King Charles has said before that he wants to be a “Defender of Faith” in the plural.
Now, that change in language is becoming real.
A simple Easter message, reaffirming the Christian hope of resurrection, would have cost nothing but meant a lot: showing continuity, confidence, and clear leadership.
Without it, especially after the Ramadan greeting, some may feel that British heritage is up for debate while other identities are protected.
This is not about being hostile to any community.
Britain has welcomed newcomers for generations and can keep doing so, as long as integration means embracing the values that made the country a beacon of freedom.
Real tolerance comes from strength, not from erasing oneself.
When the monarchy, as a symbol of national continuity, seems to favor new observances over traditional ones, it speeds up the same kind of division that allowed grooming gang cover-ups and limited free speech in the name of harmony.
The British people, whether Christian, secular, or otherwise, deserve leaders who defend the faith and culture that built their civilization.
Easter 2026 was a clear opportunity.
That opportunity was missed.
Having worked on both sides of the Atlantic to expose institutional failures that put British girls at risk for the sake of political correctness, I see this royal silence as part of a bigger test. Will Britain’s leaders regain confidence in the Judeo-Christian roots that support the rule of law and social unity? Or will they keep trading heritage for a fragile sense of unity?
The lack of an Easter message suggests uncertainty.
The British people, and the West in general, deserve better.
The Crown still has time to lead with clarity before this cultural retreat cannot be reversed.
Peter Mcilvenna is a British cultural commentator, Christian advocate, and host of Hearts of Oak. He was National Campaign Manager for the UK Independence Party and is Chief of Staff to Lord Pearson in the House of Lords. He speaks on free speech, Christian values, and Islamization of the West, and is a fellow of the Institute for the American Future and American Freedom Alliance. This article has been cross-posted with the author’s permission from Newsmax.
shosh says
Goodbye England….cheerio mates….soon there will be only a memory of Great Britain
Eddie says
Charles is apparently very ill with cancer .
Hard to feel any sympathy for him.
Seems however to find the energy and will to deliver messages of support for Islam.
There are many on line suggesting he should abdicate.
Unfortunately William is another “not comfortable”:with Christianity.
Not a good future for the monarchy as figureheads for the nation.
Perhaps Buckingham Palace could be turned into migrant accomodation ?
It might as well.
No one wants to visit London these days.
ploome says
something gone very wrong for the Church of England …
disappearing into woke nothingness
ploome says
regarding:
“Charles is apparently very ill with cancer .” I am assuming he has prostate cancer.
(A relative survival rate compares people with the same type and stage of cancer to people in the overall population. For example, if the 5-year relative survival rate for a specific stage of prostate cancer is 90%, it means that men who have that cancer are, on average, about 90% as likely as men who don’t have that cancer to live for at least 5 years after being diagnosed.)
how do you know that he is very ill?
OLD GUY says
The way things are going Buckingham Palace will become a mosque.
Gealea says
King Charles III clearly has no understanding thd the Death Cult of Islam, which is the major threat to the Western civilisation.
He should resign and let William take the crown .
gravenimage says
Or, worse, maybe he *does* know…
shosh says
“Quoth the Raven, ‘Nevermore'”
Patriot64 says
People who are of the Christian faith. Better reclaim their religion and start to live it any in still in their children minds. This what’s happening around the world Muslims are starting to become more dominant than the Christian faith…
somehistory says
Something works and works fairly well. Like a smooth-running engine. Another thing doesn’t work well at all and when anyone tries to make use of it, that one gets burned. And badly.
It makes no sense to turn on, and begin to destroy, the very foundation …set centuries ago…that made things go fairly smoothly; and prop up and feed something that burns and burns badly.
chuckie has made his choice, evidently, and is lending his power to burning down what has been for centuries.
Pat says
Oh he did it nearly a WEEK LATER🙄 🤡 NOT MY KING ! .
Troybeam says
King Charles, how long does he have left? He got the king-ship because his mother the Queen would not choose her grandson over the idiot, she could have but chose succession instead.
somehistory says
Since Harry met some terrorists of the muzzie kind, while in the service, perhaps he would have been the better choice.
that is one messed up family.
Feisty Granny says
You’ve got that right – and they’ve given England to Islam, which was the traitorous king Charlie’s plan since he converted to Islam in 1979. Listen to the speech he made at the WEF in 1990, and now William’s speech this year. . I thought William would be a king for the people, but I’ve been reading lately where he is following in his father’s red shoes (Andrew knows).. When the people rebel, and they will, there will no longer be a monarchy in England. In the meantime, Kate and Charlotte in burqas, William wearing a long, ugly beard (or possibly executed when the people rebel) It’s also happening in France, they say. Well, we’ll wait and see. Not wise to trust the MSM.
Siddi Nasrani says
I think all this mental illness started years ago when Charlie started to hug & talk to trees. He put his big ears to the trunk & expected a answer !!!
He is a traitor to the British people.
“The greatest betrayal in English history.” Godfrey Bloom slams King Charles for his refusal to convey an Easter message to Christians after honoring Muslims with a holiday message for Ramadan.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/y0FhBd-rSVo
Walter Sieruk says
If King Charles III really , truly has chosen the Islam ‘s Ramadan in favor over the Christian Bible based doctrine of the resurrection of Jesus from the tomb three days after he died and was placed in it , there is no way he could be a Christian, regardless that he’s officially the head of the Church of England
For that’s where the real foundation of Christianity is the resurrection of Christ from the dead, First Corinthians 15:1-6. To it more strongly, if Jesus didn’t rise from the dead the entire religion of Christianity if false, it’s a hoax. The Bible confirms this statement. First Corinthians 15:12-19.
Roman guards has been stationed at the tomb of Jesus to make sure that His disciple would not be able to steal the body of Jesus and then make a false claim of His resurrection, Matthew 27::62-65.
Besides the disciples of Jesus too scared to do much of anything but run away and go hiding, Matthew 26:55.
Furthermore, if those disciples did, somehow, steal the body of Jesus and then falsely claim the he rose from the dead. They would be fools to then to give and risk their lives on what they knew is false report and a lie.
Besides, I had been to the Jerusalem and seen such an ancient tomb and it has large rock covering to its entrance. If the body of Jesus had been stolen, there would have been much ground disturbance at the difficult task at moving such a large heavy rock covering. Therefore, a hoax resurrection could be easily discovered and exposed as a hoax.
Shame on King Charles., he’s a disgrace and dishonor a country what is still officially a “Christian nation..”
Walter Sieruk says
With this news about King Charlies largely disregarding the most important Bible doctrine of the resurrection of Jesus in favor of Islam’s Ramadan further reveals his being so very favorable to Islam , just maybe the King had been proselyted to Islam or not, he favrs Islam ,with the politically correct climate in England he must have had conveniently forgotten about the deadly results of Islam in the United Kingdom. Such as the murderous Manchester jihad bombing that occurred on May, 22, 2017 that killed many young people, many of them girls. Before that, there was those deadly London which happened on July ,7, 2005.
Likewise, the King seems not to remember the deadly jihad train bombing Islamic vehicle and knife jihad attacks. London nor does the King appear recall the Muslim terrorist who, in London murdered a British police office with a hatchet attempting to cut off his head. Worst of all that murderous Manchester jihad bombing that occurred on May, 22, 2017 that killed many young people, many of them girls The deadly dangerous posed by Islam’s violent and murderous jihad hasn’t gone away in the UK. Therefore, it’s shameful that the King is “bending over backwards” to appease the Muslim mayor of London and the imams as well as the other Muslims in power in the government in the United Kingdom.
Walter Sieruk says
This isa very fitting time to to consider that King Charles with his attraction and admiration towards Islam the might mean that he had been proselytized to Islam. If so or if not the King of England, his approval and respect for Islam is very revealing about his religious education he received in the Church of England, Which in the United Kingdom is also called “The Anglican Church.”
The King with is favorable spirit to Islam reveals that the Anglican church didn’t teach and ingrain the Bible doctrines about the Nature of Jesus into the his mind and heart when he was still a prince.
Likewise back then he was a prince his “higher education “ didn’t cover the many different aspects of how the religion of Islam rejects the many clear Bible teaching about the nature of Jesus.
For Islam denies the Bible doctrines about of and about the actual natural of Jesus which is blasphemous.
For Islam denies that Jesus is the Son of God. Meaning that Jesus of the only Son of God the Father. That is in blatant contradiction to the information revealed in the Bible.. As found, for example, Matthew 3:16, 17, First John 2:22, 23. Likewise, Jesus is God the Son, as seen in Hebrews 1:8. First John 5:20.
The Deity of the Son taught in the Bible .For in Colossians 2:9 It reads “For In Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form. ” [N.I.V.]
That Jesus is God is further revealed in the Bible in John 1-1-3. Colossians 1:15-17. Romans 9:5 Second Peter 1:1. Titus 2:13 First John 5:20.
So, in the Light of the Bible it’s then no surprise that in Islamic countries, the Muslim clerics attempt to discourage the people from reading the Bible, by their words and even owning a Bible, by their actions.
For those Islamic clerics would have no hold or control over the people if they discovered the truth of the sculpture, Bible, Second Timothy 3:16 and the Jesus is the way to heaven, John 14:6.
Furthermore the Bible in First Kings 8:89 teaches that “Only God Knows that thoughts of men” in the Gospel of Mark 2: 8 reveals that Jesus knows the thoughts of men.”
In conclusion, the Bible does reveal to that, Jesus is God and that exposes Islam is false teaching about Jesus and therefore Islam is a false religion of demonic darkness.
As Isaiah 8:20 reads” To the law and to the Testimony ! If they do not speak according to the word, it is because there is no light in them.”
Wellington says
Charales is a mess but I blame his mother too. While the UK slipped into a destruction of freedom state, she said nothing. Elizabeth II inherited a free country in 1952 when her father, George VI, died. But when Elizabeth died seventy years later to the year her nation was no longer free. And she said nothing about this, did noting about this.
Oh yes, I know abut the constitutional role of the monarch in Britain, yada, yada, yada, and so I don’t need a lecture here on this, but if one can’t put their office on the line from time to time, whatever that office is, what the Hell good is that office, especially when not doing so will further the death of your nation?
Elizabeth essentially did nothing while her nation was dying. Charles is just a postscript to this negligence and little else. And i write all this as one who used to admire the British monarchy but this is no longer the case.
Andra says
It sometimes seems that Charles has turned Muslim. If so, I wonder wether he can stay king any longer. The British king is the leader of the Anglican Church – and that cannot be a Muslim, can he?
Wellington says
The Act of Succession (1701), and which is still good law, requires that the monarch be a member of the Anglican Church since the monarch is technically the head of said church. This is why the so called James III and his son, Bonnie Prince Charlie, were excluded from the throne since they were Roman Catholics, although this didn’t stop uprisings in their favor in 1715 and 1745 (known as “the 15” and “the 45”), especially among the Scottish Highlanders.
So, not only can the British monarch not be a Muslim (what a horrible prospect but it seems a possible one in the absurd times in which we live) but he cannot even be a Roman Catholic, although George I managed to remain a Lutheran once he inherited the throne in 1714, the bias in Britain at that time being against Roman Catholicism and not necessarily or as much against other Protestants.
Pray Hard says
I remember some years ago when Charles pranced around a room dressed as a Saudi playing with a sword. Such a Nancy!
shoehorn says
The Jacobites vindicated. Charles Edward Stuart, descendent of King James and Jan Sobieski, should have been Charles lll
James Lincoln says
It’s getting harder to harder for King Charles to hide the fact that he is a muslim.
somehistory says
He must not be a *recent convert,* James, or he’d probably be going postal…or ‘jihad.’
nicholas william tesdorf says
Charles III should go the way of Edward VIII.
gravenimage says
King Charles III Chooses Ramadan Over Resurrection
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She was *not* perfect–she should have done much more to protect Britain from the Islamic invasion–but I still miss the queen…
Tim gallagher says
Anyone who knows anything about the evil, barbaric nature of islam had be extremely evil to join the satanically evil brand of religion. I believe Hitler was a big fan of islam which makes sense. Lots of people with power in dhimmi England seem to suck up to stinking Islam. Absolutely pathetic. The UK seems to be far, far gone and Charles seems to be an evil creep if he likes rotten to the core Islam.
gravenimage says
King Charles III Chooses Ramadan Over Resurrection
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Just appalling–he hates Britain.