I am always fascinated by persons who romanticize Monarchy and who for example, call for the return of the Tsar in Russia, or the Roi in France…These people lament over the deaths of Marie Antoinette and her children, but what about the thousands of poor French mothers and children who were living in abject poverty and even starved to death for lack of any bread? Are the “blue bloods” only worthy of your tears? What about the barbaric behavior of les Rois in cases like the sick execution of Robert-Francois Damiens under Louis XV…and all the nameless victims of absolute monarchy that we will never learn about?
And what of the serfs in Tsarist Russia, who were virtual slaves on the estates of the Russian Princes and the rest of the Elite 1%…You weep for the Tsarina Anastasia, but what of other little girls who weren’t lucky enough to be born into such opulence? Do you realize that more than likely under the systems of government whose return you pine for you would be in the category of the poor and unlucky 99%? Good Kings are not revolted against. If these monarchs had shown just the littlest interest in the welfare of the masses, they would not have been confronted by bloody revolutions. But they were too busy living in unspeakable luxury to turn an eye toward their own dispossessed people, until it was too late. Revolutions are bloody but sometimes necessary business.
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The French royals have the same story, King Louis was incompendent but not an tyrant, his children and Marie Anntionette were techniaclly innocent under law, telling your people to work and eating cake isn’t illegal. Kaiser Wilhelm II lost his throne due to the fact he was pulled into a war that wasn’t of his design.
Exactly right. You’re talking about absolute monarchies who were rightly confronted by bloody revolution in the absence of any other way of ordinary people making any protest against their total lack of interest in the welfare of the masses.
Western European countries that are still monarchies now are constitutional monarchies. A constitutional monarchy is ruled by democratic government, with a constitutional monarch who can be a non-political head of state and national focus of unity.
I happen to be British and know our history… we nearly came to bloody revolution after the despotic rule of King Charles I, who caused the English Civil War and was executed when he lost it. England was a republic for the next 11 years (1649-60) The monarchy was only restored because the Commonwealth rulers made such a mess of it, and every British monarch since has learned not to interfere with democracy. Except for Charles’s son James II, who fled to France in 1688 having failed to learn from his father’s mistakes. That resulted in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 – not really a revolution at all – placing power firmly in the hands of Parliament.
Yes, I am a monarchist… but ONLY in terms of the British way of doing it.
There is retard by name” Royal Male” who defends palace and its ill gotten wealth all the time in these columns.He should answer this.
@spinal injury:It appears ‘spinal injury” to your back has affected your thinking capacity also.Get a life and stop licking the a—–s of buckingham palace.
The Tsar of Russia’s opulent lifestyle was a small factor in the deposition, with the abdication following the February Revolution which took advantage of post war conditions.
In the majority of cases, hindsight has shown us that revolutions are only bloody, and abolishing a monarchy pushes a country into peril, dragging down the poor people with the crowned heads. England brought tyranny under Cromwell, Russia brought Lenin and Stalin, Germany brought Hitler, China brought Mao, Spain brought Franco, and Iran brought Khomeini.
One should expect that these people ‘pining’ for their past culture want a modern form of constitutional monarchy. The absolute monarchies you mention existed in societies where the common people didn’t matter, while similar cruelty has existed in every old republic. All government has its pitfalls and they were very deep in the past.
you speak the truth. they have had their way for too long .why monarchists enjoy being oppressed is beyond me. all the information is right in front of them, they love their delusions.
And what makes you think they don’t? Democracies care very little for the poor as Mitt Romney and his likes can attest!
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