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Flat White

2018 will see modernisation of the monarchy – or its doom

3 January 2018

2:52 PM

3 January 2018

2:52 PM

Our Royal Family can either be traditional or modern, that is to say, it can either survive or pursue its own destruction.

Her Majesty the Queen has, throughout her life, been consistently dismissed as unremarkable and dull. A Monarch whose station far exceeded her ability.

Even recently she was assessed by the writer of the Netflix series “The Crown” as being of unremarkable intelligence.

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