Posted on 11/12/2017 6:30:34 PM PST by markomalley
As to "once upon a time.." -- that ended in the 1600s with the "glorious revolution" when the English threw out their rightful kings, the Stuarts and replaced them with first the Dutch king then with German princes (to add to the fact that they had a Norman-French king, invited the French Dauphin to rule over them, had Welsh kings (the Tudors) and Scottish kings (the Stuarts)
As to abolishing the monarchy - this is a figurehead, serves as good a purpose as the German President and is cheaper. Plus Chucky won't live long - Willie will take the throne
“Captain Jack Aubrey — Chucky doesn’t rule a country, not now and not when(IF) he becomes king. the monarch in the UK has very little actual ruling they can do “
Nonetheless, it is the king’s country, not the people’s. The king is the sovereign. In the US, the people are sovereign. A big difference. The king is the head of state. Here it’s the president.
This is news? He wrote this letter back in 1986, so for 33 years, everyone’s known Charly’s views. Hardly worth repeating now. What next? Pictures of him in King School(or wherever the royal family learns its stuff) yearbook in blackface? King Edward abdicated partly so he could marry a Catholic, and partly because he was in sympathy with Hitler.
As for kings, we “foreign Jooos!” do have a royal family, the descendants of David and Solomon, and some of them are known. Whatever England does after Queen Elizabeth kicks off, it’s strictly their concern. Whoever takes over whatever it is that a British monarch does in this day and age, monarchy isn’t a bad idea in principle, and I think I’ll be pushing for a return of the Davidic dynasty in Israel.
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