Posted on 03/26/2020 12:17:21 AM PDT by Morgana
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Do you have a problem with her having some black in her background?
Hopefully not, conservatives aren’t that way.
Thanks. We have been binging on “The Queen”. Finished last night.. changing my opinion on Monarchy. It would be nice to have someone at the top who actually cared about the country as a whole.
The Odds are high but it is possible for that to happen
Haven’t watched The Queen. Do you not feel that Queen Elizabeth cares about the country? Is this the gist of what comes out of The Queen?
No. You get the sense she cares deeply but regrettably her job is to “do nothing”. Project stability. If it represents what actually happened she probably was, behind the scenes, responsible for ending the coal strike.
Like I say, it has me rethinking Constitutional Monarchy. It might be wise to have someone at the top who does nothing for the most part but steps in in a crisis and apolitically orders everyone to “Do the Right Thing”. Right now we could use one.
Watching “The Queen” to learn the reality of the actual monarch Elizabeth II is like watching “God Friended Me” to learn about Jesus. It is a very distorted and often completely untrue portrayal, with dialogue made up by snowflake copywriters.
No, not at all. Just being accurate in description, which will be a problem for the royals and the British public if she or Archie ever were to become a significant factor in the line of succession.
I know they passed a revision law to eliminate male heirs over female ones so the order only goes by birth order regardless of gender and it only applies to newly born royals. Princess Anne should be ahead of Andrew and Edward.
That law only changes the rules for those born after 28 October 2011. Princess Anne (and her issue) therefore remain after her younger brothers (and her issue).
The only change it has made in the top 30 that I have listed is that it puts Charlotte before Louis.
Yes and then Williams children.......
To me the strength of the British monarchy is that it puts ultimate authority and power in the hands of somebody who has no need for a political agenda (certainly not a party political agenda) and whose only duty is to the constitution of their country and to the welfare of that country. And they are also people who are raised to do their duty to their country and to love their country. They are only allowed to intervene in cases where the system isn't working the way it is meant to, and they can only intervene to put it back on the path it is meant to be on. While things are working the way they are supposed to be working, they must stand back and watch.
'The Crown' is quite good at showing this, especially in its first season - it's becoming more fantastic and less factually accurate as it gets closer to the present day, but it does still show that.
The royal family are not perfect people. They don't always do the right thing in every aspect of their lives. But when it comes to their core constitutional duties, I'd honestly find it hard to find a case of them failing in those duties since Edward VIII abdicated - and while doing that was a failure, at least it was a failure that meant he could do no further harm. He wasn't suitable to be King - he wasn't willing to put country above self - but at least he knew it.
Nobody would create the Westminster system of constitutional monarchy from scratch today - it would be an absurdity - but it has organically evolved over a thousand years into something that I actually do think works very well in its context. And some of the scenes in 'The Crown' do do an excellent job of showing this - most notably when the Queen calls in Winston Churchill to tell him she knows he's been keeping things from her, and making it clear this is not to happen again. We don't know how accurate that scene is - private audiences between the monarch and the Prime Minister are just that, private - but the basic message matches the reality. The Monarch intervenes only rarely, and only with cause. But the fact the Monarch can intervene, means governments normally do what they could - if the Monarch has to intervene, the system hasn't worked properly, and that is the government's responsibility.
I very much enjoyed the show and it opened my mind to all the things you discussed. I so identified with her husband, his almost genetic obsession with leaving a mark, finding his Faith. It was really very well done. You fall in love with them because of their human failures in a sense. That “apolitical leader” at the top. We could use that. Spank the Rats. Especially now. But maybe we can just shame them after this is over.
Yes I know that. Take care fellow Aussie,
This has to be fake, I just read this tweet claiming to be that of Prince Charles.
“The virus currently affecting USA is still not as bad as the one that’s been affecting it since the 2016 elections.”
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