Monarchy, Honours, and the Molding of Modern Society -- A Conversation with Tobias Harper
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The Magic of Celebrity and the Magic of the Monarchy
I think this is partly about how the press has changed and how the monarchy was exposed to a new kind of scrutiny. And it's, and it's remarkable too when you think about it. There's been this evolution where the state has nationalized certain industries,. so then the honor system has had to extend to these important industries. So yeah, I think Wilson was ahead of his time in a number of ways with that focus on celebrity and with that intentional use of the immediate concerns of celebrity culture to try and modernize the honor system. But, and yet the irony is that to us today, it seems very natural, right, it's yeah, Sir Paul McCartney and Dean Judy Den
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