Bub
My wife and I are on the last episode of Season 2 of The Tudors. Great series. It's free if you have Amazon Prime. It got me so interested that I've been doing some reading on Henry VIII and the show is turning out to be fairly accurate when it comes to the major events.
Not for kids ...
As, I'd venture, is a lot of the sordid history of our 'beloved' royal family Bub.
It would appear that throughout the long history of this
Sceptred Isle, its first family have been guilty of every conceivable human failing, while at the same time, the ruling head of this mafiosa mob, as titular head of the Church of England, has adopted the hereditary position of
Defender Of The Faith.
Over the years, our Monarch has demanded from his/her subjects both respect and taxes, firstly at the point of a sword, and nowadays through the quaintly anachronistic vehicle of the Civil List. At least now, our respect appears to be optional.
It seems to me that our current sovereign has taken upon herself to put the House of Windsor back in to some semblance of order, and as such is to be applauded. It does, I would argue, place her in a very small minority of those similarly dutiful among her ancestors. But one often wonders if she would have adopted such a stance if the sordid and scurrilous activities of her ancestry and progeny had actually not been made public by a news media no longer slavishly conspiring in league with the monarchy to keep these indiscretions under wraps.
Vive la République.