The clause follows an all-out political attack on the entertainment giant by the Florida governor following the company’s public opposition to what opponents have called the “Don’t Say Gay” law, which LGBT+ advocates warn will have a discriminatory and chilling effect in state schools.įollowing weeks of pressure from advocates and Disney employees urging company leadership to publicly lobby against it, then-CEO Bob Chapek announced last year that the company would oppose the bill and suspend its political donations, after giving tens of thousands of dollars to GOP officials.Īfter Disney’s public objection, Governor DeSantis and members of his administration lashed out at the company, igniting a feud that escalated to Republican threats to punish Disney’s operations in the state and ultimately resulted in his administration taking control of them. Disney World may have blocked a board appointed by Ron DeSantis from making major changes to its sprawling Florida parks thanks to a last-minute clause invoking King Charles III.īefore a governing board was filled with hand-picked DeSantis loyalists, the previous board members approved an 11th-hour change that gives Disney the final say “21 years after the death of the last survivor of the descendants of King Charles III, king of England living as of the date of this declaration”.

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