The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #78263 Message #1406028
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
11-Feb-05 - 12:56 PM
Thread Name: BS: Charles to marry Camilla
Subject: RE: BS: Charles to marry Camilla
Getting rid of the inheritocracy? Getting rid of the the royals might be a kind of topping-out flourish, if something like that were actually to happen. But in itself it does nothing whatsoever to bring it any nearer. If anything it might even make it worse - it might well give people the illusion something had been achieved when it hadn't.
Just look at the republics across the channel or across the ocean. Can you really see much sign of egalitarian democracy? You'd do rather better (not that much better, but some) to look in the direction of the Scandinavian monarchies.