[ifinnegan]

I think his pledge is to be “Defender of Faith” without “the”, as in not be an exclusivist in favor of the Church of England he is, technically, head of. It’s all this woke diversity stuff.

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Yes. Defender of faith. That’s what he’s said in the past. Not Defender of The Faith.

Which to my mind means he’s not King.

[Verginius Rufus]

The irony is that the title was originally bestowed on Henry VIII by the pope for Henry's Defense of the Seven Sacraments (attacking Martin Luther), before Henry broke with Rome. All the kings of England before that got by without the title.