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The media have been replete this week with comparisons between Japan’s Princess Mako marrying the commoner Kei Komuro and Britain’s Prince Harry marrying the commoner Meghan Markle. Yet a cursory reading of their respective courtships, engagements, and weddings would disabuse any reasonable mind of those comparisons. Therefore, I see no point in doing any disabusing… Read more.
Frankly, I couldn’t care less about this wedding. In fact, you couldn’t have paid me enough to get up at 8 this morning, let alone at 4, to watch this royal spectacle. I have vented antipathy to royalty and all its appurtenances in many commentaries, including in “Homage to Royal Wedding,” April 28, 2011, when… Read more.
Oh dear, students at Cambridge are raising quite a republican fuss over the royal treatment their university is according Prince William. Here’s how the student newspaper, The Tab, framed their outrage in a December 30 report: The Tab must point out that normally students need A*AA at A-level to gain entry to Cambridge University, whilst… Read more.
