When she was elected Italy’s first female prime minister, Giorgia Meloni inherited an economy with a debt-to-GDP ratio of 144 per cent. A year later, the economy remains the biggest impediment to the populist reforms she campaigned on.

As King Charles prepares to make his first visit as monarch to a Commonwealth country, the upcoming trip to Kenya may send signals about how the monarchy will try to answer critical questions it faces amid a broader reckoning with history and the impac…