This article encompasses much that so many of us felt about the late Queen but might have been unsure how to express quite as lucidly as Prof. Thompson. The Queen was remarkable in manifold ways and sincerely loved by millions around the world because of the personal qualities she consistently displayed throughout her reign. She subsumed her individual being to the duty of office and to her peoples – and never faltered in so doing. If Napoleon was ever right then he was when he said that monarchy was the one device discovered by man for the curbing of money-power and, by extension I would say, political power. We can rest a little easier with such folk at the helm.
As a teenager in Adelaide in 1963 I first experienced monarchy in the person of the Queen when she attended a concert on a summer’s evening in Elder Park. It was life changing for from that moment on, unknowingly at the time, I became a monarchist. Emotion can often spur us on to discover and consider primal and ancient truths that might lurk below the surface of daily life. Whatever else one might say about hereditary constitutional monarchy there will always be an emotional element in its attraction partly because it stems from the most ancient of man’s governances and holds fast to truths of enduring quality and longevity not connected with contemporary ephemera.
F Hugh Eveleigh
1 year ago
This article encompasses much that so many of us felt about the late Queen but might have been unsure how to express quite as lucidly as Prof. Thompson. The Queen was remarkable in manifold ways and sincerely loved by millions around the world because of the personal qualities she consistently displayed throughout her reign. She subsumed her individual being to the duty of office and to her peoples – and never faltered in so doing. If Napoleon was ever right then he was when he said that monarchy was the one device discovered by man for the curbing of money-power and, by extension I would say, political power. We can rest a little easier with such folk at the helm.
As a teenager in Adelaide in 1963 I first experienced monarchy in the person of the Queen when she attended a concert on a summer’s evening in Elder Park. It was life changing for from that moment on, unknowingly at the time, I became a monarchist. Emotion can often spur us on to discover and consider primal and ancient truths that might lurk below the surface of daily life. Whatever else one might say about hereditary constitutional monarchy there will always be an emotional element in its attraction partly because it stems from the most ancient of man’s governances and holds fast to truths of enduring quality and longevity not connected with contemporary ephemera.
David C
1 year ago
An extremely difficult act to follow; Charles is still settling in but he seems to understand.
It won’t be an easy task with the U.K. in turmoil politically and a son who is seemingly ignorant of the importance of the institution he represents.
An extremely difficult act to follow; Charles is still settling in but he seems to understand.
It won’t be an easy task with the U.K. in turmoil politically and a son who is seemingly ignorant of the importance of the institution he represents.
This article encompasses much that so many of us felt about the late Queen but might have been unsure how to express quite as lucidly as Prof. Thompson. The Queen was remarkable in manifold ways and sincerely loved by millions around the world because of the personal qualities she consistently displayed throughout her reign. She subsumed her individual being to the duty of office and to her peoples – and never faltered in so doing. If Napoleon was ever right then he was when he said that monarchy was the one device discovered by man for the curbing of money-power and, by extension I would say, political power. We can rest a little easier with such folk at the helm.
As a teenager in Adelaide in 1963 I first experienced monarchy in the person of the Queen when she attended a concert on a summer’s evening in Elder Park. It was life changing for from that moment on, unknowingly at the time, I became a monarchist. Emotion can often spur us on to discover and consider primal and ancient truths that might lurk below the surface of daily life. Whatever else one might say about hereditary constitutional monarchy there will always be an emotional element in its attraction partly because it stems from the most ancient of man’s governances and holds fast to truths of enduring quality and longevity not connected with contemporary ephemera.
This article encompasses much that so many of us felt about the late Queen but might have been unsure how to express quite as lucidly as Prof. Thompson. The Queen was remarkable in manifold ways and sincerely loved by millions around the world because of the personal qualities she consistently displayed throughout her reign. She subsumed her individual being to the duty of office and to her peoples – and never faltered in so doing. If Napoleon was ever right then he was when he said that monarchy was the one device discovered by man for the curbing of money-power and, by extension I would say, political power. We can rest a little easier with such folk at the helm.
As a teenager in Adelaide in 1963 I first experienced monarchy in the person of the Queen when she attended a concert on a summer’s evening in Elder Park. It was life changing for from that moment on, unknowingly at the time, I became a monarchist. Emotion can often spur us on to discover and consider primal and ancient truths that might lurk below the surface of daily life. Whatever else one might say about hereditary constitutional monarchy there will always be an emotional element in its attraction partly because it stems from the most ancient of man’s governances and holds fast to truths of enduring quality and longevity not connected with contemporary ephemera.
An extremely difficult act to follow; Charles is still settling in but he seems to understand.
It won’t be an easy task with the U.K. in turmoil politically and a son who is seemingly ignorant of the importance of the institution he represents.
A younger son…
A younger son…
An extremely difficult act to follow; Charles is still settling in but he seems to understand.
It won’t be an easy task with the U.K. in turmoil politically and a son who is seemingly ignorant of the importance of the institution he represents.