Amanpour and Company

>> I SUPPOSE CROMWELL IS AN ILLUSTRATION OF A MAN WHO HAS TREMENDOUS PERSONAL FAITH. BUT HE ALSO RESPECTED THE FAITH OF OTHERS, AND HE KNEW THAT YOU COULDN'T BULLY PEOPLE IN OR OUT OF BELIEF. ABOVE ALL, WHAT HE WAS WAS A PEACEKEEPER. AND HE KEPT THE PEACE FOR MOST OF HENNY'S REIGN. THE KING WAS INCLINED TO GO TO WAR BECAUSE IN THOSE DAYS, WAS HOW YOU DEMONSTRATED YOUR GLORY. BUT KING -- CROMWELL SAID TO THE KING TIME AND AGAIN, NO YOU CAN'T GO TO WAR, WAR'S ARE NOT AFFORDABLE THINGS. YOU GET INTO A WAR YOU NEVER KNOW WHERE IT'S GOING TO END. IT COULD END IN YOUR COUNTRY BANG RUPT. BANKRUPT. CROMWELL HAD BEEN A SOLDIER. HE KNEW THE HUMAN COST OF IT. I THINK IT'S THIS PRINCIPLE, PROGRESS MATIC STANCE AND HIS SKILL IN NEGOTIATION AND BALANCING INTEREST THAT STILL HAS SOMETHING TO TEACH POLITICIANS TODAY. HENRY WAS INTEREST THAT STILL HAS SOMETHING TO TEACH POLITICIANS TODAY. HENRY WAS THINKING OF HIS OWN MILITARY GLORY. CROMWELL CONSTANTLY REIGNED HIM BACK BECAUSE OF PRACTICAL FACTORS, BUT ALSO BECAUSE OF PRINCIPLE. >> DO YOU THINK -- BECAUSE I THINK YOU'VE SAID THAT -- THAT THIS COULD BE, YOU KNOW, AFTER THE QUEEN, THE BIGNESS OF THE BRITISH ENGLISH MONARCHY COULD SORT OF GRADUALLY FADE AWAY. IN OTHER WORDS, IT DOESN'T HAVE A LONG TIME IN THE FUTURE TO GO. DO YOU STILL THINK THAT? >> WELL, IT'S NOT A PREOCCUPATION OF MINE. I'M NOT TO COMMENT ON THESE AFFAIRS, I THINK PRINCE CHARLES, HE'LL BE OUR NEXT KING, HE'S A MAN WITH A HUGE SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY AND I WONDERFUL ETHOS OF SERVICE WHO HAS BEEN WAITING IN THE WINGS TO DO SOMETHING FOR HIS COUNTRY FOR MANY, MANY YEARS NOW. BUT OF COURSE IT'S PART OF THE MYSTIQUE OF MONARCHY, THAT, HOWEVER OLD, HOWEVER TIRED, HOWEVER SAD, THE MONARCH MUST STAY IN PLACE. THAT'S WHAT IT MEANS TO THE I THINK CHARLES WILL BE A GOOD KING. I THINK HE MAY REVITALIZE THE INSTITUTION. BUT I HONESTLY CAN'T SEE IT OUTLIVING HIS CHILDREN AND THEIR CHILDREN.