Most people here don’t realize that the Monarchy serves the Government. The Royals are basically Good Will ambassadors who have no real power or control. Prince Harry is doing what he is told to do. Prince Charles often steps outside his boundaries, but he is not yet King. I hope, when he is king, he is tempered by a Government that does right by Britain......not a Government that Charles wants. I had hopes that Theresa May would have the iron will of Baroness Thatcher. It seems she is just a shadow of the Iron Lady.
Well, that’s it, exactly.
May’s husband is employed by Capital International. Because female national leaders are something of a recent novation, very little has been studied as to the tangential impact of their husbands on national policy, and more.
Dennis Thatcher may have been a pleasant man married to a strong woman, but this showed up in the Thatcher son’s gun running problems. She may have been prime minister but family-wise really not much difference from urban youths and divorced families in America - no strong male influence in the home, progeny goes off the rails. So how do we explain Reagan, who had to step over his dead drunk father on the doorstep to get into his house? It is an area which under normal western standards would be pursued in some corner of eggheadland.
May has always tried to split the difference. She is not an ideologue. She and her husband have not had children and more importantly did not adopt when they found out they could not have children. As is true of such people anywhere in the world, it is important to watch what they substitute in terms of time and effort for what would normally be occupied by family matters. This is true regardless of their professed political and social affinity.