Royal Sense of Duty May Die with the Queen
Our sovereign might be the last to believe in a higher cause than family or personal desires A sly joke that did the rounds during America’s traumatic presidential election campaign featured the Queen saying to the American people: “Having second thoughts?” The suggestion that America may have lost something of immeasurable worth when it declared independence from Britain in 1776 is, however, not altogether a joke. The British monarchy is probably the most well-known and yet the least understood institution in the world. That’s why The Crown, the drama series…
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