Hereditary monarchy: a system by which one inherits wealth and prestige solely by an accident of birth, with absolutely no regard for qualifications, with a long history of colonialism, imperialism and oppression, made worse by orders of magnitude for indigenous non-white peoples.
By all accounts, it seems that Elizabeth II evolved from a bigoted middle-aged matron (who blocked Charles from marrying the love of his life, Camilla, because she had been previously married [shades of Wallis Simpson!] and insisted he marry a virgin [yes, they inspected] whose life she then made intolerable, while she also harbored another pedophile son, Prince Andrew) and developed into an amicable, gracious old lady who eventually, however begrudgingly, welcomed Camilla and later Meghan Markle (whose racial and prior marital status would have been unthinkable a few decades earlier).
Hereditary monarchy: a system by which one inherits wealth and prestige solely by an accident of birth, with absolutely no regard for qualifications, with a long history of colonialism, imperialism and oppression, made worse by orders of magnitude for indigenous non-white peoples.
By all accounts, it seems that Elizabeth II evolved from a bigoted middle-aged matron (who blocked Charles from marrying the love of his life, Camilla, because she had been previously married [shades of Wallis Simpson!] and insisted he marry a virgin [yes, they inspected] whose life she then made intolerable, while she also harbored another pedophile son, Prince Andrew) and developed into an amicable, gracious old lady who eventually, however begrudgingly, welcomed Camilla and later Meghan Markle (whose racial and prior marital status would have been unthinkable a few decades earlier).