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In reply to the discussion: How do you feel about today's British Royal Family? [View all]Solly Mack
(90,892 posts)But clearly now a brand in the present currency of the word.
Far less mysterious than they used to be. Lot of the luster is gone. I'm talking throughout its history and not in terms of my lifetime, though there has been a definite rapidity to the loss of both mystery and luster since my birth.
I don't revere it but it is history and from that standpoint an interest of mine.
Treated as celebrities, in the popular "Hollywood" vernacular more than anything. As such, they are both elevated and cheapened.
Reaches a greater audience but invites the familiar which in turn removes the august sense of being one tends to think of when one thinks of royalty. A Majesty without the majestic, so to speak.
Human, with all the foibles.
Anachronistic.
Tourist attraction.
Overexposed.
Struggling, but without grace. You don't get it both ways - the attention and appeal without the scrutiny. Silence isn't grace, necessarily. It can be simply one hoping that no response is eventually met with no scrutiny. That the inquiring body will give up. The silence also allows others to interpret the silence their own way - with opposing parties fighting it out without the royal family ever having to comment either to affirm or negate. Above the fray and out of the way - the line of fire directed elsewhere.
Slow to evolve.
Restricted by the ideals of royalty with the realities of changing world.
If the monarchy crumbles, it crumbles.
Wouldn't be the first monarchy to go the way of the dustbin of history.
All that said...
The racism matters. As living symbols/history of the United Kingdom/Britain, racism within the royal family should be exposed and should be rooted out.
No system is worth the oppression it tolerates - and racism is oppression and it is never - ever - just a small part of the whole. Racism always permeates the whole.
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