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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Well on second thoughts I think we might not be too far off from one another after all. I believe it's valid and indeed probably vital to feel the charisma of royalty as it would have been felt and in a few cases still is. But I certainly don't approve of its cupcakeification
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Yeah I’m not saying that the magic around them didn’t exist. It’s what I study actually, how that image was created and then propagated. It’s people who seem to buy into it now, and from people who study it.
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