"This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,"
A speech the Bard put in the mouth of one of England's most difunctional kings who screwed his way through every woman he could get his hands on, was totally incapable of controlling the plots against him mainly instigated by his two sons, Richard and John who were scrabbling for control of the throne, and who was forced to imprison his wife, Eleanor (known as 'the democratic drawbridge who went down for everybody') in a tower for 360 days of the year to stop her servicing all the male members of his court and poisoning his lovers
Not the greatest of recommendations Iains, but probably a pretty fair assessment of Britain after Brexit.
Jim Carroll