The television station revealed that people may be surprised to learn how few clergymen in the Church of England actually support the monarchy.
He explained that many argue that monarchies are “human institutions” that “deny the equal dignity of all human beings who are made in the image of God.”
When the Most Reverend Richard was first ordained, that was his faith.
But it was “transformed” one day, not by a “blind epiphany” or an “imperative argument” but a simple gesture by Princess Anna.
“The first is that it is, to use a word of fashion, related,” he wrote in the Guardian.
“The historical identities of our countries, their policies and cultures, are codified in the lives of these people and in their stories we find our own.”
He continued: “The second is the advantage of having a head of state who is not a partisan political creature.”
The Reverend Richard called it “extremely reassuring” that the Queen was politically neutral.
He added that the royal family could also be “our best defense against the rise of tyrants”.
Earlier this year, Richard announced that he was retiring from the Church of England.
He explained that his reasoning was that churches were becoming more conservative and fundamentalist, which means that homosexuals like him feel “undesirable”.
Richard went on to compare the support received from Jake Daniels, the Blackpool FC footballer who recently appeared in public as a homosexual, with the reception within Anglicanism.
