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Posted on 08/10/2022 by admin

I do find monarchies difficult to understand. I think it is because I have no empathy with worshipping images and devotion to monarchy is all about image. In history they have been sallow, intelligent but brutal, selfish, and to body politic dangerous. Today in England they have a retinue if immense privilege but have been reduced to immensely rich people with ridiculous titles. They can hardly be said to be ‘their own people’. Yet with all the ills of the world in Cornwall they have a new Duke of Cornwall and somehow this is meaningful.

It is. Because if you get royal backing for your project you will get money for it. Have a great idea, a brilliant idea, a workable idea and it is not a given it will find funding.

Because title and name mean more than intellectual strength.

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