King Charles III, defender of persecuted Christians

Britain’s new monarch has emerged as one of the world’s most influential supporters of persecuted Christians.

Britain’s new monarch is known as a champion of unfashionable causes.

He was dismissed as “completely dotty” in the 1970s when he began raising the alarm about plastic pollution. In the 1980s, he was mocked for installing “strange machines” known as bottle banks - for recycling - at Buckingham Palace.

Environmentalism has long since gone mainstream, but i…