eccentricities

 

Aahhh!  We're into a new month -- November!  And in this month we are going to see a sweeping, dramatic change in our lives, and that change will be due to --

Season 4 of The Crown coming on Netflix, November 15th!

With the actress Emma Corrin portraying Lady Diana Spencer!

It is just what we need.

     I checked on The Guardian site, to see their articles and reviews about this Netflix show...  Anything about the British royal family attracts a whole bunch of Reader Comments saying "we don't need a monarchy" and "they don't do anything, they are just the most effective benefits scroungers of all time" etc.

Here is a Comment from December 2017:

     Mick James ---------------- Facts don't have sell-by dates.  Britain is a constitutional monarchy, and this mode of government, although eccentric, has proved to be extremely stable--not just here but in Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands and post-Franco Spain.

     Setting up a successful republic is quite difficult and requires a level of constitutional genius not normally found outside late 18th-century America.  And certainly not in 20-21st century Russia.

     It's a testimony to the Founding Fathers that they at least saw Trump coming but it's proving a very stern test of the Constitution.  And the American system is, I think we would all agree, far from perfect with eccentricities of its own.

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