The Royal Family
Sir, —“Awe,” “mystique,” “splendour,” “essential distance from ordinary men”— after reading your editorial on Monday, one might be excused for wondering why you do not openly proclaim your belief in the divine right of kings. To any intelligent person the whole concept of Royalty is too absurd to contemplate in this day and age, yet we have the ludicrous spectacle of a few ordinary human beings, of no particular brilliance or talent, being supported in opulence by the State merely because of an age-old manmade myth which, the advocates of Royalty seem to believe, places them apart from the ordinary race of men. Future historians will regard this phenomenon with amused incredulity.—Yours, etc..
REPUBLICAN. February 9, 1962.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29745, 12 February 1962, Page 7
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