[JZoback]

William "is determined to hold on to his privacy and believes living in the States gives him the best opportunity,"

I would agree. I could care less who he is.

Most Americans think of the concept "Royal Family" as a pretty strange idea. The Kennedy's clan of rejects pretty much make the case for why we don't want one.

The only exception are liberals who think we need one, but they can't help themselves, it's part of their mental disease.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

LIBERALS would love to see more royalty from say, the Castro line.

[royalcello]

The only exception are liberals who think we need one

Wrong. I'm a right-winger (in the European "Altar & Throne" tradition), and a staunch monarchist. In fact, when "Right" and "Left" first acquired political meaning (the French Revolutionary era), Monarchy was one of the two fundamental issues (the other being Religion) dividing the two, with the Royalists sitting on the Right and the Republicans sitting on the Left. I find it sad that the contemporary "Right" has almost completely abandoned its traditional support for monarchy.

This American will welcome Prince William to the U.S. God Save the Queen!

[B-Chan]

I am a monarchist, and I am neither liberal nor mentally ill. Monarchism transcends the artificial spectrum of left/center/right French democratic politics and champions the pre-Enlightenment model of a sacramental polity where allegiance is a matter of lifelong sworn personal loyalty rather than disposable alliances based upon shifting political winds.

A monarchy is the ultimate expression of private property: in a monarchy, the State is the personal fief (property) of the Crown, and the Sovereign has a natural interest in protecting, preserving, and improving that property. A popular government is the ultimate expression of public property: in a democracy or republic, the State is theoretically the property of the People as a whole, realistically the property of the representatives (or demagogues) who hold elective office at the whim of the voters and interest groups who elect them. Consequently, the people in day-to-day but temporary control of the state have no personal interest in its long-term well-being, and have a natural interest only in getting as much as they can during their stay in office.

It's like the difference in being a homeowner and being a renter: the homeowner takes better care of his property than a renter would because of the equity (vested interest) he has in that property; the renter, on the other hand, has no concern for the long-term well-being of the property, since he will not suffer if it declines in value.