Do you miss Elizabeth II yet? Or do you feel the emptiness of the Crown? You have to admit that Charlie is trying. After spending most of my life with some in-direct connection to being an Elizabethan, I am just not yet into Charlie and the Lovely Camilla. Nor can we expect a quick transition to Charlie’s squabbling progeny.
But more likely, the time of kings, queens, princesses and princes is long gone. We replaced them a century gone by with entertainers, movie stars and sports heroes. Royals are people who cut the ribbons at new supermarkets and open hospital wards. Maybe under a more liberal regime at Whitehall, we could vote to choose between Charles, William or Harry. That could modernize them.
Maybe Oprah Winfrey could go to England and get a tell-all interview with the Lovely Camilla. I bet she can give us some juicy tales of being snubbed by royals.
Personally, I think all the royals should have to pass a psychiatric review each year to earn their share of the dole. I am not sure what they would do with those who are not enough of a toff?
The only inconvenience of voting for your favourite royal would be the expense for the respective governments in switching between the royal heads to appear on the coinage and the postage. Or is that just another use of royalty that has failed to entertain us?
I have memories of my mother waking us children so we could hear the royal message from afar on Christmas morning. The only thing that puzzled us was that mother was an American. She only married a Canadian. I have often felt that Americans only wish they still had royalty. Maybe that is why so many of them like Donald Trump.
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