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The Sunday Debate: Charles III should be the last British monarch
Intelligence Squared
The Fallacy of the Monarchy
The greatest threat to monarchy is not the mob, it is just a relevance and essentially people not caring. Monarchy never works like that, it moves slowly incrementally and that is the Queen's great strength. We can elect people to be head of state but we are assuming what people do hate about monarchies. I mean there is a lot of substance behind this idea which has been thrown around by some as an excuse for why Britain should end up with a one-party rule system. It does engender a sense of continuity because it separates us from other countries in Europe who have their own form of Monarchism. The notion that the monarch is head of the military or the judiciary therefore someone
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