OPINION | Don’t get caught up in sentimentality over Queen Elizabeth II’s death. This ridiculous institution needs to go.
, no real substance—would do well to remember the harsh facts: the House of Windsor is as important in terms of the British constitution as the Targaryens are to the Iron Throne.
So, following the disastrous interwar period—with its major social unrest, and abdication of a monarch who favored brute concupiscence over constitutional niceties—the House of Windsor was in a difficult situation. The Queen’s father, George the Sixth had a good if muted war, leaving the stage vacant for his young daughter to accede to a throne faced with all that the second half of the twentieth century had to offer, in terms of precipitate political events.
Peter Hennessy, the now-ennobled constitutional theorist, propounds the “‘good chaps” theory of British governance, which is: in the absence of any written constitution, what stops the de facto British electoral dictatorship from running populist and amok are the “good chaps” who hold the highest offices of state.Their motto says it all...Honi soit qui mal y pense—or, in the contemporary vernacular: Don’t f**k with us—or we’ll f**ck with you., their monarch is the Supreme Good Chap.
Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, Prince Charles, Diana Princess of Wales, and Prince William stand on the balcony of Buckingham Palace.When Diana Spencer rocked the institution by speaking openly of the then-Prince of Wales’s infidelity to her, it was the Queen who received the public’s sympathy. But her 73-year-old successor is neither so easy on the eye—nor so maculate. Notoriously caught by phone hacker telling his then-mistress, Camilla Parker-Bowles, he wished he could be her tampon, the new King suffers from a sort of positive capability: there’s not just this whimsical sexual passion , he has also spoken out rather too loudly and rather too often on all manner of contentious subjects—from the looming environmental crisis, to the clash between Christianity and Islam.
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