Perhaps not surprisingly, due to the fact that he lived on a diet of erudite rage, scotch, and cigarettes, Queen Elizabeth II outlived Hitchens by a fairly wide margin -- although his description of the future King Charles III in that 2010 article has survived and been bandied about a bit in the decade-and-a-half since.

OTTAWA, Ontario — King Charles III said Canada is facing unprecedented challenges in a world that’s never been more dangerous as he opened the Canadian Parliament on Tuesday with a speech widely viewed as a show of support in the face of annexation threats by U.S. President Donald Trump .

King Charles and Queen Camilla arrived in Ottawa Monday for a two-day visit designed to show U.S. President Donald Trump that Canada is not a prospective American territory but a distinct constitutional monarchy with its own identity,

In a rare address to Canadian Parliament, King Charles III warned Canada faces unprecedented challenges in a dangerous world, amidst US annexation threats.

King Charles III has raised concerns over growing threats to Canada’s stability following Donald Trump’s talk of annexation.

After U.S. President Donald Trump's repeated suggestion that the U.S. annex Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney invited King Charles III to give the speech that will outline his government's agenda and underscore the nation's sovereignty.

"We are going to have to spend more sooner," Carney said in an interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. that aired Tuesday. He has cited the coming NATO summit next month in The Hague as one reason his Liberal government wouldn't introduce its 2025 budget plan until the fall, to incorporate revised defense-spending plans among Western allies.