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Name of Book / Periodical Britain since 1945
Publisher Routledge
Date published
Author / Editor David Childs
ISBN / ISSN 0-415-39327-2
Title of Chapter / Article Monarchy in crisis
Page numbers 293-294-295
Type of publication: textbook / encyclopaedia / gov’t / academic / political / religious / campaign / other
  Evaluation of this source: · fact 1 opinion · objective 1 persuasive · level of bias · assumptions · up-to-date? · reliable? There are both facts and opinions in this article. The article is persuasive and hugely biased and contains assumptions. It is up-to-date and is reliable because is going to be used in my arguments.
  Main points: When the Prince Charles divorced from Princess Diana after fifteen years of marriage, many of which were subjects to scandal and conflict, the Queen that in the future divorced wives of male descendants to the Sovereign would not be entitled to use the style Royal Highness. The whole story actually is a collapse to the myth about the Royal family. Actually his myth was held up with all the post-war prime ministers and started crashing in 1980 when the Royal family was surrounded by too much media attention. The economic difficulties of the country also brought difficulties in supporting the existence of the Royal family. The problem of the monarchist seems to be that they gave too much to the royal family in return for their stability, continuity, service and success.   The justification for retaining monarchy was just an accident of birth which gave the new-born wealth, massive status and great influence was that the Royal family should give the nation an example of a traditional values. However, by 1996 the Queen’s only sister, Margaret, was divorced, as was the Queens the only daughter, Princess Anne. Anne’s brother Andrew was from his wife Sarah and one other prince remained unmarried. There were rumours about Prince Philip, the Queen’s husband. Anne made history when she remarried in 1992. This was the first remarriage since Henry VIII. Therefore the royal family, which was supposed to be model of a moral family, was actually less stable and less able to cope with life than that an average British family did.   Since the Queen reached her 70 in 1996 there appeared a question of that whether she should retire or stay. But the trouble was that there were no such rules about the retirement of the Queen. The massive expenditure of space and time on the Royal family brought the question of more pressing issues which led foreigner to visit the country to make sure the seriousness of the British monarchy, particularly about the unreal arguments about British sovereignty and membership of the European Union.   Even more serious doubts were about is the country able to afford to pay the enormous sums for supporting the royal family. The monarch had paid tax until George V in 1930, and the Queen agreed to pay income taxes only in 1996. It is hard to imagine just how rich she was partly because of some of her admirers in the Establishment to obscure the sums involved. The royal yacht and the Queens flight was paid by the Ministry of Defence, the royal train was paid by the Ministry of Transport and so on. Few people could realise that even the clothes worn by the Queen and the royal family as a whole were paid by the taxpayers. According to the Independent (1996) Princess Margaret’s week in San Francisco in 1995 cost the taxpayer £7,200 for her clothes. Prince Edward’s tailor presented a bill of £2,200 for his four-day trip to Swaziland in 1993. And in the same year the Duchess of Kent’s four days in the Seychelles cost £4,300-worht of tailoring.   Supporters of the monarchy argued that these events helped to bring more tourists to the country, but were the French less able to attract tourists to Paris or were the USA unable to attract people to see the White House in Washington? Monarchists tried to bring the same argument about the export driving, well actually the highly successful countries such as Germany and South Korea and Taiwan managed without such help. And the Japanese monarchs were actually used a little as commercial ambassadors.   By 1996 the British monarchy kept losing is popularity fairly steeply in compare with that what was before, so that most of the nation picked up the question of reforming or at least scaling down the monarchy.

 



 


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