Hitchens unimpressed by royal wedding or monarchy.

[Deep13]

http://www.slate.com/id/2291497/

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Convinced republican that I am, and foe of the prince who talks to plants and wants to be crowned "head of all faiths" as well as the etiolated Church of England, I find myself pierced by a pang of sympathy. Not much of a life, is it, growing old and stale with no real job except waiting for the news of Mummy's death? Some British people claim actually to "love" their rather dumpy Hanoverian ruling house. This love takes the macabre form of demanding a regular human sacrifice whereby unexceptional people are condemned to lead wholly artificial and strained existences, and then punished or humiliated when they crack up.

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Myself, I wish her well and also wish I could whisper to her: If you really love him, honey, get him out of there, and yourself, too. Many of us don't want or need another sacrificial lamb to water the dried bones and veins of a dessicated system. Do yourself a favor and save what you can: Leave the throne to the awful next incumbent that the hereditary principle has mandated for it.

*EDIT* Replaced "Hitch" with full surname since apparently there is more than one well-known "Hitch" in the world.

[damntexdem]

1. Doesn't like getting hitched?

[Deep13]

2. *rimshot*

:7

[Ron Green]

3. I first thought "Hitch" referred to that great filmmaker, about whose views

I really care.

[Deep13]

5. Sorry. It's a great writer about whose views I care. nt

[white_wolf]

4. Idoit! What is he thinking?!

If they get rid of the monarchy, than the British will have to treat their politicians like royalty, like we do, instead of the disposable public servants they are. I remember John Oliver joking about this.

[phasma ex machina]

6. Death is the only escape clause open to Royals.

Royals communicate the Money Power (bankster) message that everybody must accept their station in life. A few are born to vast wealth while the many are born into serfdom.

[Journeyman]

7. How much simpler it was, the last "royal wedding," when we Irish lined the streets . . .

and loudly proclaimed our support for yet another "welfare mother" to-be. . .

"Up Chuck, and Di! Up Chuck, and Di!"

[truebrit71]

9. Only pig-ignorant ass-halfs think that way..

"Welfare mother"...are you fucking kidding me with that shit?

Diana earned her keep several times over with her work for charities around the world...

[provis99]

8. It amuses me that German immigrants still rule Britain.

They couldn't find an English, Scottish, or Welsh family respectable enough to take the throne, I guess.

[Hannah Bell]

10. the european royal houses are all related to each other anyway.

they've been intermarrying for 1000 years, so much so that they have genetically unique features.

[somone]

11. Best comment:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/23/world/europe/23wedding.html

When it was announced in November that Prince William was engaged to Miss Middleton, one reader of The Daily Mail, which is usually staunchly royalist, commented, tongue in cheek, that the princess-to-be “has been largely unemployed since she left school and is now marrying someone who has been on welfare most of his life.” With cuts to state benefits inevitable, the reader went on, “I do worry for them.”