Picasso was also a communist right? Eliot is really non-political, and for good reason. He did say that he was a monarchist. But what he was getting at is that he longed for a day when Europe was united as a Christian culture. He knew that was gone; and he give us a way to cope with that reality.
The late Eric Mari Ritter von Kuenheldt-Leddihn also claimed to be a monarchist.