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Tuesday, and the end of the nonstop coverage of anything and everything Royal Family related, cannot come soon enough.

Who am I kidding – the coverage will continue to dominate the news cycle for weeks and months still.

What frivolous insight can we offer you regarding King Charles III and Nostradamus (sê my wat jou naam is – couldn’t resist)?

If you believe the interpretations of so-called Nostradamus expert Mario Reading, the future-seeing 16th-century French astrologist was on the money regarding when Charles would become monarch.

Reading wrote the 2005 book, Nostradamus: Complete Prophecies for the Future, which stated that Queen Elizabeth II would die in 2022.

More from The New York Post:

“The preamble is that Queen Elizabeth II will die, circa 2022, at the age of around ninety-six, five years short of her mother’s term of life,” Reading wrote of Nostradamus’ cryptic poems dating from 1555.

It is also written that Charles III would become “King of the Islands,” referencing Nostradamus’ foresight that the sovereign would only rule the territories of Great Britain rather than what was once a global empire including Canada, Australia and New Zealand a few centuries ago.

Here’s a fun fact if you want to impress or annoy people – Nostradamus’ full name was Michel de Nostredame.

The predictions sound better read out in an incredulous Australian accent:

According to the interpretation of Nostradamus’ predictions from Mario Reading, king Charles will abdicate in favour of his son, but not being William.
In the same book from 2014 it was predicted that the queen would die in 2022. https://t.co/LEKr5gobMu pic.twitter.com/aCZPuYrpwi

— Aapske (@oudaapje) September 12, 2022

In Reading’s interpretation of Nostradamus’ texts, King Charles III is not due a smooth reign:

“Prince Charles will be seventy-four years old in 2022, when he takes over the throne, but the resentments held against him by a certain proportion of the British population, following his divorce from Diana, Princess of Wales, still persist,” he wrote.

There are plenty of other reasons that a proportion of the British population doesn’t like Charles.

A revision of the same book a year after it was published added that “a man who never expected to become king” will instead rule after Charles abdicates the throne due to his advanced age.

I guess that rules out King William. If the monarchy wants to ensure it’s dismantled rapidly, step up King Andrew.

[source:nypost]