🏛️ Politics 1d ago · Nicholas Harris

Queen Elizabeth II’s unhappy birthday

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“Are we right, or are we mad?” So Alexander Chancellor responded, in the Telegraph, to the emotions of the British public at the 1986 engagement of then Prince Andrew to Sarah Ferguson. Chancellor was giving a voice to the anxiety that intelligent conservatives occasionally feel about their monarchism, but always squash (“…rather mad, but I can see no great harm in it,” Chancellor continued). Is this vast, moth-eaten anachronism really decorous, dignified, magical (all those mysterious wor

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