As someone who studies kingship and the idea of rulers to my fellow scholars who also study this stuff: why this incessant and persistent twee woobification of kings and queens?
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And based on perpetuating the false ideology that certain people have the right to rule, and the very real consequence of murder and war to achieve power.
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Why this constant perspective of stanning queens? Eleanor of Aquitane would not be your friend or mine.
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Honestly this seems not much different than modern monarchism and the conservative deference to monarchy.
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And you could say this is a series of subtweets, but it’s from over a long period of observing this behaviour on here.
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