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Today, Explained

The Paradox of the British Monarchy

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Professor Brooke Newman from Virginia Commonwealth University has written a book about the British monarchy. She says monarchies are in many ways symbolic but they exist still because they're seen as non-partisan heads of state. If anything's going to undermine the monarchy, it's going to be this the people within the institution kind of crumbling under the pressure of having to uphold this thousand year old institution.

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