For A' That
Oct. 29th, 2007 09:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloThe Divine Right of Kings is an idea that should have died under the axe that divided Charles I in two but for some reason- the innate flunkeyism of the human animal?- it didn't. The biggest believer is the Queen herself. We're told it's because she honestly believes she was given the job by God Himself that she keeps trudging her daily round- with that look on her face- and will never retire. For much of my life the nation has encouraged her in this fantasy. I was in my mid teens before anyone dared draw a caricature of her and- in spite of interim irreverence- we seem to be returning in the twilight of her reign- and mainly thanks to Helen bloody Mirren- to the old sentimentalism, the old deference.
Which I hate.
And always have done.
Because it's undignified. Because a man's a man for a' that. Because I refuse to be in awe of a pegtop doll simply because it's been draped in tinsel and stuck on top of the Christmas tree. Because monarchy is the lynchpin of a system that's unjust and corrupt and stupid.
Because I'm an anarchist.
And that's why I 'm happy whenever something happens to remind us that the royal family are merely folk- and enjoy blow-jobs and cocaine binges as much as the next man or woman. The Queen herself has always been a figure of uncompromisingly dull rectitude (yawn) but all round her it's been like the 120 Days of Sodom. Harry is a rakehell, so- in his day- was Charles, so was the Queen's sister Margaret, so was her uncle Edward VIII and her other uncle Prince George (whose death in wartime remains a classified state secret) and so on back to Edward VII who was an infamous whorermonger- and the last royal (before this weekend) to be blackmailed over his sex life.
I don't know which of them got caught with his (?) trousers down this time. I don't suppose it matters. I just want to thank him.
Which I hate.
And always have done.
Because it's undignified. Because a man's a man for a' that. Because I refuse to be in awe of a pegtop doll simply because it's been draped in tinsel and stuck on top of the Christmas tree. Because monarchy is the lynchpin of a system that's unjust and corrupt and stupid.
Because I'm an anarchist.
And that's why I 'm happy whenever something happens to remind us that the royal family are merely folk- and enjoy blow-jobs and cocaine binges as much as the next man or woman. The Queen herself has always been a figure of uncompromisingly dull rectitude (yawn) but all round her it's been like the 120 Days of Sodom. Harry is a rakehell, so- in his day- was Charles, so was the Queen's sister Margaret, so was her uncle Edward VIII and her other uncle Prince George (whose death in wartime remains a classified state secret) and so on back to Edward VII who was an infamous whorermonger- and the last royal (before this weekend) to be blackmailed over his sex life.
I don't know which of them got caught with his (?) trousers down this time. I don't suppose it matters. I just want to thank him.
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Date: 2007-10-29 03:00 pm (UTC)I'm sorry but I have to disagree with your last paragraph. "Democratic Republicanism will not work there" - why not? And the "well-entrenched social fabric" is gone, my friend. We no longer wear flat caps, curtsey to the Squire, and generally we have forgotten to "know our place". We are quite uppity, in fact. Please stop watching re-runs of "Brideshead Revisited", we are not so different from the US, socially. I have spent enough time there to know that at work, for instance, we Brits are not as deferential as our US colleagues, and we are much more left wing.
now let's all sing the Red Flag...