a monarch who is old enough to know better<\/a> from going out and wantonly shooting elephants (whether or not his people are groaning under a heavy financial yoke).<\/p>\nIf the British royals ever did anything like that today, I would immediately become a republican. <\/p>\n
(I’m rather afraid that if I took a closer look at current royals’ domestic hunting, I might already become as anti-sovereignist, with reason, as the separatists [ironically calling themselves “sovereignists”] among my fellow-quebeckers already are, without reason, alongside Canadian and Australian republicans, likewise without reason.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As a Canadian and British citizen (left-leaning), I am sentimentally and aesthetically a royalist, as long as the royals conduct themselves in a way that is aesthetically and ethically positive (and not too much public money is spent on them). A monarch with a historic pedigree can, like a flag or soil, be a more … <\/p>\n
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As a Canadian and British citizen (left-leaning), I am sentimentally and aesthetically a royalist, as long as the royals conduct themselves in a way that is aesthetically and ethically positive (and not too much public money is spent on them). <\/p>\n