To: ValerieUSA
the monarchy's reputation nosedived in 2001 when the crown prince, Dipendra, killed his father, the popular King Birendra, and several other royals in a palace massacre.
The steady decline of monarchy worldwide continues to baffle social scientists.
4 posted on
01/31/2005 11:09:42 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
(Ted "Kids, I Sunk the Honey" Kennedy is just a drunk who's never held a job (or had to).)
To: SunkenCiv
I remember that palace revolt. It reminded me of something that might have happened in ancient Egyptian times - but with a modern twist.
To: SunkenCiv
The steady decline of monarchy worldwide continues to baffle social scientists. gee I wonder why, they've been so succesful in the past, you know with playing landgrab and all that...
17 posted on
02/01/2005 12:50:01 AM PST by
William of Orange
(slow change may pull us apart...)
To: SunkenCiv
The steady decline of monarchy worldwide continues to baffle social scientists.
Thankfully we can be pretty certain that it's just a bad phase which the world is going through, Monarchy is the most stable and most conservative form of government known to mankind (I would add, when combined with some form of wider representation as in the British constitution, it is also the best by far).
Also, what a surprise to see that communists oppose the Monarchy. But then anti-Monarchism is the most constant element of leftism.
27 posted on
02/01/2005 4:05:16 AM PST by
tjwmason
("For he himself has said it, And it's greatly to his credit, That he is an Englishman!")
To: SunkenCiv
Especially those in Australia.
:)
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