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The Sunday Debate: Charles III should be the last British monarch

Intelligence Squared

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The Rise and Fall of the British Monarchy

The King is King of 14 nations other than the UK and he's not there because he's sort of clinging on desperate for power thinking in ways of hanging onto his throne. He's there because the monarchy was invited to be there and there is very much. And it's been disinvited, seriously. The reason that the Queen was Queen of Barbados when Barbados went independent was because Barbados invited it to be its head of state. I mean, this is a sort of fallacy that you can't ever vote a British monarch in or out. You get a papu in a guinea. They voted the Queen in in 1975. They were starting again and she got a call

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