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Catherine Pepinster
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Suzi Feay

Defenders of the Faith: The British Monarchy, Religion and the Next Coronation

Catherine Pepinster Interviewed by Suzi Feay

Wednesday, 29 March 2023

2:00pm

1 hour

Exeter College: Marquee

£7 - £12.50

Journalist Catherine Pepinster looks at the relationship between the British monarchy and religion and asks what role ‘defender of the faith’ plays in an increasingly multicultural society and how this is likely to play out during the reign of King Charles.

Pepinster looks at how personal faith has had an impact on the public role of monarchs from Henry VIII to Elizabeth II. She looks at the challenges faced by the late monarch including marriage breakdowns in her family and the death of Diana. And she argues that it is vital that King Charles looks forward but without forsaking the past and the importance of tradition.

Pepinster is a former editor of the independent Catholic weekly, The Tablet. She is a regular on Radio 4’s Thought for the Day and writes for The Times, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, The Guardian and The Observer. Here she talks to journalist and reviewer for the FT Suzi Feay.

This event is part of the festival’s programme on Christian tradition.

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University of Oxford Netflix European Union Delegation of the European Union to the United Kingdom Cultural Relations Platform Supporter of the festival's Voices of Europe programme Owen Mumford Supporter of programme of science and medicine and annual science and innovation award Bodleian Libraries Festival cultural partner Oxford Martin School Festival ideas partner Spanish Embassy Event generously supported by the Spanish Embassy Cervantes Institute, London Republic of Panama Event generously supported by Republic of Panama Italian Embassy Supporter of Italian programme The Dorchester Hotels Collection Festival London hotel partner International Literary Properties Festival literary heritage partner Blackwell’s Festival on-site and online bookseller The Randolph Hotel by Graduate Hotels Sponsor of the festival crime fiction programme Jim Mellon John Roberts Lady Hatch Patron donor for the programme of Irish literature and culture Tim and Marion Stevenson Martin and Elise Becket Smith Miles Young Masumi and Jonathan Dobson Pank Koria CEO of Project People Carole and John Allen David Isaac Jill Dunsmore Mary and Cecil Quillen Supporters of the programme of American literature and culture Anna Hunter Exeter College Exeter College: college home of the festival New College Worcester College Worcester College Lincoln College Lincoln College St Cross College St Cross College Trinity College Trinity College Critchleys Accountants to the festival Pasture to Plate Compassion in World Farming Symington Wines of the Douro Valley Princeton University Press Prestige publishing partner European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Jewish Book Week Partner of Jewish programme Foodbuy Thje Menu Partners Institute of Hospitality Project People Royal Academy of Arts British Academy Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies Oxford United Football Club Racalia Olive Oil Olive oil from Sicily BBC Radio Oxford Local radio partner Bear Ram Elk Festival Digital Strategy & Web Design Paul Bloomfield Ltd University of Oxford Alumni Office Alumni Office Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Conference Oxford Felicity Bryan Associates CAV Oxford The Sheldonian Theatre Oxford University Images Oxford University Images Oxford University Department for Continuing Education Oxford Brookes University OX magazine Ox in a Box K T Bruce Photography K T Bruce Photography The Litmus Partnership Schoolreaders La Leccia Literature Ireland Confucius Institute Pusey House James Currey Society