Pro-monarchism is back and it’s as flimsy as ever. I blame our politicians for creating a dignity vacuumIt was Friday and the end of a long week which had unleashed the most embarrassing acts of performative fealty. It was not enough to merely wish the Queen well on the occasion of her 90th birthday. There was a frenzy of competitive astonishment and delight. One of the richest millionaires in the land,with no known health complaints, had managed to remain alive to her 91st year, and the blessing was unimaginably huge.
The nation stood united in gobsmack at her ability to plant seeds not just in the generation after her own,but the one after that, and fresh offspring still in the one after that, or each of them as royal as the last. In an unparalleled demonstration of her slave-like sense of national duty,she managed to believe lunch with the Obamas, a mere 24 hours after her preceding lunch.
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Source: theguardian.com