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 don’t blame someone for buying in with a certain amount of respect and awe (ideally combined with informed scepticism). But the tweeness is anachronistic and irritating, agreed
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Respect and admiration to an extent I get. But this goes so beyond that.
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I guess it’s safe to conclude that the ‘demystification of the monarch/monarchy’ process has never been completed, despite of scholars claiming/believing this to be a thing of the past.
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