Re: People love fairy tales
| March 13, 2021 04:05PM |
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waterfield
Much like Camelot was to the Kennedys the affairs of the Crown are to the monarchy. Personally, I find it all fascinating with the one exception of the tabloid's 'attack on members of the royal family. When you consider our existence as a country has its roots in the British Empire, the trials and tribulations of the monarchy are irresistible-at least to me. The British Monarchy's origin goes back to early Medieval Scotland and Anglo Saxon England in the 10th Century !
The very fact that its existence has survived for centuries is due to its marriage to tradition and order even at the expense of injustice over the years to several royal family members. And of course there is the "Firm" a group of decision makers within the monarchy-chosen by the Queen- who decide on which children will inherit a title which of course led to the abdication of Prince Harry over Prince Charles' (leader of the firm) decision to disallow a bi-racial child to hold title. Long ago there was the abdication of the throne by King Edward V111 because he believed he could not carry out his role without the woman he loved-the notorious American divorcee Ms Wallis Simpson. Indeed, Meghan Markle's treatment by the Royal family simply follows the "footsteps" of Ms. Simpson. Princess Diane's death-a story all in of itself. Add in our country being founded by a few Puritans who simply were unable to adhere to King James 1 religious orthodoxy to the Church of England and you have -what I consider-great drama. Real life drama but in some ways a great but tragic fairy tale.
I understand it perfectly why people are fascinated with this stuff. Especially those who love history and its relation to succession.
It's not a fairy story, it's a soap opera.
I am originally Canadian and like many Canadians I resent the English royal family and everything it stands for. Canadian full-democracy advocates don't want anything to do with the English royal family.
So my own feeling is, Canadians I identify with want to get rid of them, and then in the States, weirdly, everyone IS rid of them but then they cling to them for some reason. In fact I asked a very progressive Brit friend of mine once, why not get rid of the royal family, and his sincere answer was, nah they bring in too much American tourist money.
Now of course there are Tory-identified, Britophile English Canadians (certainly not French Canadians) who like the English royal family and back them. I have some in my extended family who are like that. I used to offend them by saying things like "what's a picture of this old English lady doing on our money." They could barely drink their tea when I said things like that.
I always like George VI though. And I like the fact that in the war Elizabeth volunteered for the service and drove trucks and worked in the mechanics pool for the English Army.
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Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 03/13/2021 04:10PM by zn.
