The Monarchy Is Dead.
We are witnessing the great unraveling of the house of Windsor and It’s impossible to see the monarchy lasting beyond the next generation.
When the current reigning monarch of the United Kingdom — Queen Elizabeth — ascended to the throne, formally in 1953, more than half of the people polled believed that she was ordained by God. Back then,Winston Churchill was Premier, the British empire was on its last legs; India had been granted independence and partitioned — East and West Pakistan had been carved out from within and homosexuality and abortion were still illegal and the race relations act was very much an abstraction.
In the intervening years, Britain went from being the main economy in Europe, to one that became a place, “where electricity ran for only three days a week(early 70s)”, one whose economy became so sclerotic, that it was forced to take a loan from the IMF in 1976 and not forgetting how perilously close it came to a military overthrow, when Harold Wilson was first lord of the treasury from 1974–76.
We also can’t ignore the extraordinary turn around in Britain’s economic fortunes, when the grocer’s daughter was elected first woman prime minister in 1979, the raft of measures undertaken, which propelled to the city of London to being the biggest financial center in Europe. Around this time, there was the collapse of Soviet Russia, the end of…