Saturday, November 20, 2010

Want to choose the Queen? You may be missing the point here...

So the tedious issue of whether Camilla could one day be Queen has been reignited by Prince Charles' slip in an American TV interview.  I tend to think the people questioning whether a woman they don't happen to like very much "should" become Queen are a bit like the outraged TV talent show viewers who think that Wagner "shouldn't" win The X Factor just because he can't sing very well, or that Ann Widdecombe "shouldn't" win Strictly Come Dancing just because she can't dance very well.  What, you mean that in a public phone vote, the person with the most votes wins?  What, you mean that in a hereditary monarchy, the wife of the heir to the throne gets to become Queen?  Who'd have thunk it?

If Camilla does become Queen (or indeed if Wagner wins The X Factor) it's the sign of a system working exactly as it's supposed to.  If you don't like that system, let me suggest the remedy has been staring you in the face all along...

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