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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I meant in pop culture! That their stories are easily accessible, I think, is in part why they become “celebrities” despite problems with monarchy. People like stories, and people guide their lives around stories. Whereas Clerk X doesn’t have a story, unless you read charters.
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I’m not saying it’s good or anything, but stories motivate people to do a lot of things that their own logic would contradict.
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