Prince of
Wales says but we don’t want a prince thank you anyway.
The naming of William as the new Prince of Wales was “divisive”, according to a senior Plaid Cymru politician.
“Divisive” is a stupid word. Everything’s divisive. If you mean “bad” say “bad.”
Senedd member Cefin Campbell also asked whether, in today’s “more inclusive” and “egalitarian” society, whether “we need a monarchy at all”.
That’s the real question. Is there any point to this whole monarchy shtick other than demonstrations of inequality?
King Charles announced William and Catherine were Prince and Princess of Wales in his first address as monarch.
Then he got back to pitching fits at fountain pens and inkstands.
Ah, it’s INCLUSIVE they want is it? Maybe they’d be more receptive if William were to come out as trans.
We’re in the UK right now, and we were in London when the funeral happened.
It seems to me that the way for something like the monarchy to go away is for people to care about it less and less, until finally they just shrug it off and leave it behind. A bit like…uhhhh…a bit like the way Washington’s Birthday changed from a day on which to venerate our first president to a day for auto dealerships to run big sales.
Based on what we saw in London, people in the UK manifestly do care about the monarchy. It isn’t going away any time soon.