The Monarchial Merry-go-round once again creaks into motion.
It may have by now escaped your attention, but, just a few weeks ago, a very rich and powerful old lady, known by many as “Your Majesty”, the owner of a variety of the most expensive prime real estate, and possessor of lots of top quality ‘bling’, both acquired across the length and breadth of the British Isles and pilfered over the years from past colonies and other conquests across the world. In short — the much revered, and loved monarch known as Queen Elizabeth ll, recently departed this life.
But how could you have avoided the flood of sometimes over-the-top, boringly repeated and often sickeningly embellished TV presentations, commentary and “expert” prognostications, intimate titbits, and much more, that emerged after her going. Every aspect of her life enlarged upon and analysed up and down and from back to front, following the long expected demise of the world’s richest and powerful great-grandma? The longest reigning monarch to sit on the throne of Britain’s rapidly diminishing colonial empire is gone. So too is a rapidly disappearing empire, that over recent years has become diluted down to a shadow of its once majestic, all powerful self. A past empire, now but a conglomerate of independent states, known affectionately as the “Commonwealth”.
