The MonarchyChatto & Windus, 1990 - 42 síður Part of a series, this book submits a proposal for the admission of republican principles into the national debate. The author examines the Royals as a national fetish that encourages servile but also snobbish attitudes. He calls for constitutional and political reform. |
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... Look first upon that picture , and on this ... In the course of the present reign , or ' the second Elizabethan era ' as it was bravely hailed in 1952 and at the Coronation the following year , the country has passed through a ...
... Look first upon that picture , and on this ... In the course of the present reign , or ' the second Elizabethan era ' as it was bravely hailed in 1952 and at the Coronation the following year , the country has passed through a ...
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... look down at the Windsors as a bit dumpy and bourgeois - which they most indubitably are - but this affectation is more than anything a sign of supreme confidence . The whole boneyard of Debrett and Burke , the Lords Temporal and ...
... look down at the Windsors as a bit dumpy and bourgeois - which they most indubitably are - but this affectation is more than anything a sign of supreme confidence . The whole boneyard of Debrett and Burke , the Lords Temporal and ...
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... look or sound or even feel like , but Lloyd George was too good an impresario to be deterred by that . As the then Prince of Wales , later Edward VIII , Duke of Windsor and putative Nazi collaborator , recalled in his own memoirs , he ...
... look or sound or even feel like , but Lloyd George was too good an impresario to be deterred by that . As the then Prince of Wales , later Edward VIII , Duke of Windsor and putative Nazi collaborator , recalled in his own memoirs , he ...
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The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain's Favourite Fetish Christopher Hitchens Takmarkað sýnishorn - 2012 |
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