MONEY AND MONARCHY

MONEY AND MONARCHY

British monarchy will last so long as the Commonwealth continues to serve British interests. The day the Commonwealth is dissolved, that very day the Crown will tumble in Britain like the Stuart king's head. King Charles I was decapitated following conflict between constitutionalists and absolute monarchists, but the monarchy, abolished and then restored, eventually continued in its Constitutional form. But the monarchy now gone will never come back again in any form. It will be gone for good.

Britain is now an economic monarchy rather than a political one, in the sense that her economic interests in neo-colonislism of her dominions prompt her to persist with her monarchy at home. Otherwise, who in Britain would care to curtsy or bow before the Queen? It's money, brother, all the way. No wonder the captive Napoleon in St. Helena had so succinctly summed up Britain as a nation of shopkeepers. Our late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was no less forthright in her articulation when she said, "Britain has neither friend nor enemy, only interest."

Written by Sugata Bose

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