Long Live The King

Right after she welcomed a new prime minister, if at her personal quarters, Queen Elizabeth II has died. She had a long run (70 years) and it is as they say the end of an era. Do people really want Charles III? I figure it best for them just to skip to the kid. Who is already balding. OTOH, Chuck did wait a rather long time for his moment in the sun.

We, of course, do not have official royalty. The U.S. Constitution even officially denies titles of nobility, even blocking states from granting them. People are often "into" royalty as suggested by the number of Hallmark Channel movies about women (usually women) falling in love with royalty from stamp sized European (usually) nations alone. We also have unofficial royalty of various types. We are clearly a class based society in a variety of ways.

There is some value in having royalty as a ceremonial thing. They can represent a nation without as much partisan baggage, just there for that function. Choosing the first born of existing royal is a bit haphazard even there. The British royalty has baggage, but even there, it often is baggage of the country as a whole. Such as problems of colonialism and such. Queen Elizabeth played her part well. Will it feel quite the same with Chucky? We shall see.