the people dreamed of Queen Diana

 

So many articles and videos about Queen Elizabeth II and the monarchy, and King Charles III.

        So many Comments!...

~ Actually there remains a huge role for modern constitutional monarchs, and that is, ironically, the maintenance of true democracy in their countries and to set an example to others to do so; a function that is apparently becoming more important in this century.  Indeed, in the case of Spain, it was a monarch that actually transitioned a country to a democracy.

~ Yes.  Spain brought back their royal family and established democracy in the form of a constitutional monarchy with King Juan Carlos after many years of dictatorship under Francisco Franco.

~ These critics of the monarchy should take a look at my country.  Right wing extremism threatens democracy.  Republicans try to suppress voting rights and use religious hogwash to attack human identity and women's health.  

We ban books and whitewash history.  

We're gun crazy and elect morons.  

We send suffering migrants across the country like a practical joke.  Be great if our biggest concern was another country's monarchy that most people there seem to be ok with for now.

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I read somewhere recently in this flurry of monarchy-discussion that the British monarchy was created in the first place because the barons used to fight each other and kill each other to see who would be in charge next.  The monarchy was there to put an end to that barbarism and bring stability to the society, economy, etc.

        (Watching The Crown, how many times haven't we heard "stability," right?)

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King Charles III

        One guy under a Washington Post article commented, "chuck was publicly having sexual relations with a married woman, and was unspeakably cruel to his actual wife.  so there is that."

        When he says "publicly" -- I don't think they were having sex outdoors with people walking by, but he means all their friends knew, that sort of "public."

------------------------- I read a comment under a you tube video which I thought precisely and rather brilliantly broke down and analyzed the Charles-Diana chapter in the monarchy's modern history:

~ She loved him at first - very much - watch the news clips from the time - it's obvious.  She really was a romantic and nineteen so first love and all that.  To give him his due he probably thought he could love her or at least she was good enough - but of the two she definitely got the burnt end of the stick.  

Marrying into that sideshow to a man she loved who quickly became bored with her and her 'needy clingy' ways once the true scope of her new reality became obvious - and who expected her to play the game and allow him to go back to the woman he preferred and stay dignified and silent - I really don't think that was how she hoped things would turn out.

        It was her being so popular which led to the original jealousy - not her fault she fit the mould of a fairy princess way better than he ever fit the prince - not his fault either - but of the two he certainly had the age on her which would have led one to hope he might have had some emotional maturity to deal with the unfairness of the media latching onto her and leaving him for dead - and not blame her as if it was her big plan to marry him and steal his limelight.

She was pretty much still a child when they married while he was a 30-plus well travelled man of the world who'd had many loves so him then behaving like a spoiled child having his toy taken off him was ... well, disappointing.  

Hardly surprising - just disappointing - you would have thought at some point on the downward spiral he might have thought that since he was the one who dragged a child into that insanity and madness - he should have taken some responsibility and at least tried to make the brutality of the whole thing a little more bearable - 

but he just let it eat her alive and added his jealousy and bitterness to the load.  

Very human and he is certainly not the worst person in the world by any means, and goodness knows the entire royal organization has ruined his life in many ways, so I certainly don't hate him and think he did the best he could - even if it was a poor effort.  

But, it must have been a bloody awful life for a woman who thought she's fallen in love with her prince and was about to have a fairy-tale life.  [end / Comment]

imo,

Diana would have made a wonderful queen.

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