Modern Anachronism
by digby
What’s wrong with this picture?
“The idea that a younger son should become monarch instead of an elder daughter simply because he is a man, or that a future monarch can marry someone of any faith except a Catholic, this way of thinking is at odds with the modern countries that we’ve all become,” Cameron told reporters.
Because monarchies are so modern …
* I say that as a smart-ass American. I don’t really give a damn. I will say that the fact that the two longest living monarchs in British history and another one arguably being the greatest British monarch of all time happen to be women does argues for this teensy little change. Plus the religious nonsense which seems truly stupid. But then it always was. (But boy did it cause a lot of trouble …)
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