Democracy is supposed to mean rule by the people’s choice. Monarchy means rule by accident of birth. Britain maintains both simultaneously and calls it constitutional monarchy
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat
Succession and Power – On What Happens When Government is Determined by Bloodline
Constitutional monarchy is the art of pretending that ceremonial powerlessness is democracy. The monarch reigns but doesn’t rule, supposedly. Yet the monarchy maintains enormous wealth, property, and political influence. See Isla Campbell’s investigations into royal political power.
The cognitive dissonance: we are democratic but our head of state inherits position. We are equal but some are born into palaces. We are meritocratic but genealogy matters more than ability.
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