Queenie was the last of her kind, and she maintained the favour and devotion of the people because she was a *symbol*, not a person. She was wise enough to understand that the Crown must be impartial, because it sits atop the nation. It can never become associated with petty and divisive things like politics, for example. She …
Queenie was the last of her kind, and she maintained the favour and devotion of the people because she was a *symbol*, not a person. She was wise enough to understand that the Crown must be impartial, because it sits atop the nation. It can never become associated with petty and divisive things like politics, for example. She behaved with humility and dignity, never lectured the people about how to live their lives, and never revealed anything personal about herself. She understood, and accepted, her role.
Compare that to Charles — the man refuses to close his yap for even 5 seconds. He cannot stop regaling us with his opinions about Net Zero, the Great Reset, and whatever other faddish and shallow ideas he is presently indulging. Ditto for the boys — emoting in public about how hard their lives were, and earnestly preaching the woke gospels of this and that, from their gilded perches.
Monarchy and celebrity are completely different things, and the younger Windsors are too dumb or too arrogant to accept that they can only pick 1 of them, not both. The monarch is powerful but *silent*, and is revered. Celebrities can be as verbose as they wish, but the public do not love and revere celebrities, certainly not over long time horizons. They all seem to want to ride that rollercoaster, and are blissfully unaware that they will likely bring the entire show to a close in their lifetimes, because they did so.
Yes, quite.
Queenie was the last of her kind, and she maintained the favour and devotion of the people because she was a *symbol*, not a person. She was wise enough to understand that the Crown must be impartial, because it sits atop the nation. It can never become associated with petty and divisive things like politics, for example. She behaved with humility and dignity, never lectured the people about how to live their lives, and never revealed anything personal about herself. She understood, and accepted, her role.
Compare that to Charles — the man refuses to close his yap for even 5 seconds. He cannot stop regaling us with his opinions about Net Zero, the Great Reset, and whatever other faddish and shallow ideas he is presently indulging. Ditto for the boys — emoting in public about how hard their lives were, and earnestly preaching the woke gospels of this and that, from their gilded perches.
Monarchy and celebrity are completely different things, and the younger Windsors are too dumb or too arrogant to accept that they can only pick 1 of them, not both. The monarch is powerful but *silent*, and is revered. Celebrities can be as verbose as they wish, but the public do not love and revere celebrities, certainly not over long time horizons. They all seem to want to ride that rollercoaster, and are blissfully unaware that they will likely bring the entire show to a close in their lifetimes, because they did so.
You are right of course.
Somehow the queen never said anything about anything and so became sanctified to the extent that no one is allowed to ever criticise her.
Of course the reality is that no one is perfect...