The subconscious mind is a compelling force. We can replicate patterns in our lives without realizing it. We end up living out certain psychological prototypes that resonate deep within us - and we don't even know why we do it.

The Crown of England has reproduced in this way the stresses and strains that underscored another quite different drama concerning a kingdom in the final throes of its existence about 2000 years ago.

Both stories concerned would-be kings struggling to get their kingdoms to recognize their claims to kingship.

Christ's claim to the throne of Israel was to be thwarted, and his end was to be an infamously terrible and bloody one. Today the Prince of Wales, the hapless Prince Charles, struggles to get the respect he feels he deserves.

These two men had sufficient public acknowledgement for them to be taken seriously by history. But both of them watched as the Crown hovered just beyond reach.

In Christ's case, he was to make a play for the Crown triggered by a fateful kiss. The Prince of Wales has not made any such attempt. But if he were to try, what would be his best course of action?

Understanding what it was that undermined them both, would allow the prince to change his course, to avoid the modern equivalent of the crucifixion of Christ.

There is an answer to his dilemma.
And it's up to him to make it work.