Before we get too judgmental about British royalty, let's remember we barely wrestled the presidency away from a guy who uses orange makeup and once made Jeffrey Epstein uncomfortable with a joke.
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@Sundae_Gurl Yep, and at that time we were both countries whose head of state had a large private income from government properties. But it was only constitutional in one of them.
@pieist @Sundae_Gurl Simon Schama puts it this way in the FT today... "in a world full of morally squalid despots all claiming to be the personification of their nation and its religion, and treating those who presume to disagree with torture, imprisonment and death... a monarchy, by comparison, is an innocent bargain."