Royally Screwed: British Monarchy Revealed (17 page)

Someone with the moral standards of a worm, whose only interest is, self, me and how does it help me?

 Monarchy should always have been a leading light of morality.  A leader, although not spiritual, but living a life style one can look at as an example. Historically, Monarchy has sadly fallen short and led the way by murdering, bullying, intimidating and whoring its way through the centuries.

There have been a few good examples of humanitarianism and altruism but these have been few and far between, and Royalty has been better known for tyranny and violence.

But in this celebrity obsessed, media driven world, this may be a great opportunity for Monarchy to step up to the plate and show a media hungry public that they are living in a modern world with a moral code.

All the spin and public manipulation in the world could never save Chuckie and Millie from an informed public, but the forthcoming nuptials on April 29
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, 2011, and its participants look extremely promising.  Fingers crossed!

A Case for Continuing...

Throughout this book, we have looked at the many reasons why Monarchy made us miserable, why so many rulers were just ‘rotten’, and why selfish, hedonistic greedy behavior on the part of some Monarchs almost destroyed the Monarchy completely.

But there are reasons why the British Monarchy managed to survive when so many others have perished along the centuries. If you think it ‘just happened’ then you would be wrong.

Ever since the time of King John, the GBP or the peasants as they were known at the time, with the help of the Barons and the landed gentry asserted their will and forced this particular Tyrant to sign a document, called the Magna Carta.  This charter created a law which was ABOVE the King. This document is the most important historical document in the history of democracy and became the foundation of the American Bill Of Rights. It talks about the individual’s right to pursue ‘Life, Liberty and Property’. 

King John signed the charter is 1215 and then reneged on it.  He was a real creep.  It was ratified and finally signed in 1257 by Edward 1
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.

So since the 13
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Century, the GBP has asserted its will on the Monarchy.

And in many ways the British Monarchy has responded.  Without the King, the King James 1
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Bible would never have been written.  It took almost a century to write, was one of the first books to be printed, and is now believed to be the archetype publication of the Anglican Church.  It was a bible written in English and not Latin and it became accessible to the masses, read from pulpits by clergymen to people who were unable to read.  It is still in print today and available on line. Would this book have been written without King James? Unlikely.

Elizabeth 1
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was a benefactor to a great deal of British art and literature, many of which are still considered some of the world’s greatest playwrights. One is none other than William Shakespeare, without her would he have languished in anonymity??

Charles II helped rebuild the city of London after its great fire.  He granted a Royal warrant to a man who became known as Britain’s greatest architect, Christopher Wren. He designed 51 churches in the City Of London, one of which was the famous St. Paul’s Cathedral.  Many of those buildings are unchanged and still standing today.  No King, no building? No St. Paul’s Cathedral?

Some Monarchs used their power, influence and education to elevate the life of England and its people.

Unlike the French and Russian Royal families, the British Monarchy connected with their subjects while the hedonistic French and the Russians remained aloof and uninvolved with their people. They were hated by their peasants.  Which is maybe why neither families endured after their revolutions and the British Monarchy did survive its own revolution and is still very much here, while the French and Russian Monarchies disappeared after their revolutions, the German and Japanese Royal families fared no better.  The German monarchy didn’t survive after the First World War and the Japanese Monarchy disappeared after the second.

The British Monarchy was probably strengthened in the hearts and minds of the British people after the Second World War as they had been very much involved in the war and part of the fight.

Queen Elizabeth II has so much respect around the world, for her dignity and longevity.  She has always been a great ambassador for the country of England.

So maybe she doesn’t do stand-up. Sing or tap dance, she can still draw a crowd and bring beaming smiles to many faces, even if they don’t get to actually meet her and she doesn’t even ‘do’ anything, except show up!

It is a bizarre phenomenon, unlike an elected official she doesn’t need your votes but she does need you to believe in her as she stands for decency and truth, and for everything essentially English.

It’s an ideal that maybe long gone, or is it something that we need now even more than ever?

Should that be true, just flick back over the pages of this book just to remind yourself what we DON’T need!

Epilogue

If British Monarchy isn’t the oldest, grandest and most powerful Monarchy in the world, then it’s right up there.

The Queen and Prince Philip on her Coronation in 1953

The Queen and Prince Philip today

There are sixty Royal families in existence today, from the tiny country of Lichtenstein to the ever expanding United Arab Emirates.  The small country of the Netherlands has the wealthiest Queen in the world and the Kings of Tonga, Fiji and Samoa, probably wouldn’t make the Fortune 500.

The British Royal Family has endured for one thousand years, if they are not THE oldest, well, really, who cares because they certainly have the highest profile of any Monarchy in the world.  They are EVERYWHERE!

(HRH) Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II is the Queen of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland.  She is also the Queen and Defender of the Faith in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, The Bahamas, Bermuda, Barbados, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda and last but not least St. Christopher and Nevis...  And if that is not enough she is recognised Queen and defender of the faith in 40 republics around the world.  I won’t list them all.  You will fall asleep.

Other Monarchies don’t come close to the global expanse of HRH.  No other Monarch has the amount of territories she has accumulated.  No wonder she’s never home! Over the last fifty years, she has trotted around the world waving and shaking hundreds of thousands of hands.  This woman is almost as expansive as the internet and just as well known.

It does my head in to think that the ‘ex’ Mrs Parker Bowles thinks she will replace her!  A woman whose only claim to the throne was that she was willing to commit adultery for eleven years.  I’m sure that the world will be lining up in eagerness to shake her hand and ask her just how she did it, something to remember for the children.

Greater minds than mine once wrote that the foundation of freedom and democracy were founded on the pillars of morality and religion.

We have discussed that lack of morality and religion at length, and sadly it is not the real culprit for the insanity we find ourselves in.  The real culprit is
APATHY
.

In the multi cultural England of today, there is a definite apathy towards the British Monarchy and its history.

It managed to survive the Russian Revolution, the French Revolution, its OWN revolution and two world wars.  But will it survive Chuck and Millie?

In the middle of the two wars, the country felt very strongly about Mrs Simpson.  They had the support of the government, the Church and the media to vent their antagonism to their potential future Queen. 

For the wedding of the second bride of Chucky, the government said nothing.  The Prime Minister, Tony Blair attended the wedding with his wife.  The pillars of the Church and its leaders were furious and initially wouldn’t contemplate the liaison, but time passed and the Archbishop Ronald Rumsey died and a new Archbishop was found who could see nothing wrong with the match, and there you have it.

On the day of the wedding, the majority of the press was supportive of the Prince and his new wife, ‘How Happy’, ‘How wonderful’, only the ‘News of World’ saw that there was a problem… ‘The Bride and Gloom’ ran the headline, with reference to a very unhappy looking Majesty.

In 1997, the outpouring of grief from the country, and the world, after the fatal crash in Paris, was genuine and passionate. Ten years later and most of the country had lost their appetite for an inquest into the three deaths.

‘It’s costing too much money” (over 10 million pounds), “We could feed the poor and build more hospitals with that amount of cash”. 
Of course we could, but you know we wouldn’t.