Without the Queen, the Monarchy Could Fall Apart | Novara Media
“So long as the human heart is strong and the human reason weak,” wrote the great Victorian essayist Walter Bagehot, “Royalty will be strong because it appeals to diffused feeling, and Republics weak because they appeal to the understanding.” But after the technological and political revolutions of the 20th century, the divine grandeur of royalty looked little more than a tatty veil draped over the greed and despotism of Europe’s blue bloods. Elizabeth understood that the dignity of the monarch had to be reinvented as something closer to home in order to hit the mark of the public’s heart – less per me reges regnant, and more primus inter nanas.
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