\nThe following is according to my understanding.<\/p>\n
\nI recall in the summer of ’81, my grandmother’s anticipation of the wedding between (then) Prince Charles and Lady Diana. As I remember, she got up early in the morning to watch it – a lot of people did. The media discussed the wedding throughout the next few days.<\/p>\n
\nOf course I didn’t get up to watch the wedding – I was a pre-teen anyway. My grandmother, however, seemed quite impressed by it when she talked about it later. I think somehow she could read that the importance of the ceremony escaped me. “I think royalty is really something special,” my grandmother observed. I realized a lot of people seemed to agree, given how much that wedding was talked about afterwards.<\/p>\n
\nQueen Elizabeth II’s picture was in all my elementary school classrooms, as I recall. The Prime Minister’s was as well. (The US President – Ronald Reagan – was also on the wall in some of the classrooms.) Nobody questioned the reason the portraits were there, although I don’t recall them being on the walls of my university classrooms. Perhaps they were, but by then I was so used to them I no longer noticed.<\/p>\n
\nAs a Canadian, one was meant to accept the authority of the British monarch. After all, we were a former colony of Great Britain. Yet, during the 80s, murmurings that questioned the validity of the monarchy reached my ears. I developed the opinion, as a young teen, that the monarchy’s presence in government seemed due to legacy rather than functionality.<\/p>\n
\nToday, it seems some people wonder if the British monarchy, as an institution, might possibly collapse under the weight of a scandal. Yet, apparently, the monarchy remains important to many Brits, and even others outside the British Isles, including President Trump!<\/p>\n
It seems elusive to me, why people are so impressed by the monarchy, since it’s based on birthright. Perhaps it’s because their presence somehow legitimizes – even showcases – the idea that so much of life isn’t necessarily democratic or meritocratic.<\/p>\n
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YouTube: Times Radio: Andrew’s scandal pushes William towards revolutionising the monarchy<\/a><\/p>\n bbc.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Self-tutoring about an institution whose importance seems questionable: the tutor begins. The following is according to my understanding. I recall in the summer of ’81, my grandmother’s anticipation of the wedding between (then) Prince Charles and Lady Diana. As I …<\/p>\n