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Symbolism and the monarchy.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)

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| May 01, 2005 | Proudfoot, James | COPYRIGHT 2005 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

SIR: Simon Caterson, in "Royal Showbiz and the Australian Republic" (April 2005) describes how the present British monarchy has been integrated with the wider celebrity world and laments the vagaries and moral fibre of the Windsors individually and collectively (the Queen just passes, he says, in the estimation of the Baby Boomers and their elders). The issue of symbolism as a force for the preservation of the Windsors and the monarchy however evades him altogether.

From Magna Carta, over a period of about 600 years, the principles of parliamentary democracy were thrashed out in Britain. After the devastation of the Napoleonic wars the British economy pulled many ...

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