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109. Bernardo de La Paz

Bernardo de La Paz

Royalty - i the few country's who still have it - is about traditions - culture and national pride (even if some of the royals tend to make scandal now and then) Specially when it comes to UK I doubt the royal family will be off the office anytime soon.. Mostly because they for the most part do a good job of representing the UK - specially the Queen Elizabeth II do a great job - and have always doing a good job - in fact she have been on the throne for more than 50 years - and it is just one Queen who have been on the crown longer than the current british Queen...

At the other hand - England have experienced Republic - the 16 years under Cromwell's where it was a strict Puritan republic in place of the kingdom - Charles the I was indeed killed by the soldiers of Cromwell - some claim it was Cronswell itself who executed the king in front of St James in London... It was 16 long and hard days in England - and after Cromwell finally died after many years in power - they could not wait to get him buried before they invited the son of the King - Charles the II back to England - to be crowned as a King again... And England - and after 1707 UK have been a kingdom ever since... And I doubt the british want to abolish the Kingdom anytime soon.. Even after so many years most british have no interest in a republic...

Royals and a ruling King or Queen is maybe a _relic_ but it says something of the country - if they choose to keep their royals - even long after they have stopped ruling in their own right of the country.. Officially the Queen of UK have a lot of power - but is still subject of the Parilament and the government who rule the country - of course on the behalf of the governing Queen.. The current Queen do have a lot of officially - and unofficially power who she can choose to use - the problem is if she does it - the Parliament can censure her... And that have not happened in UK since Charles I who sent soldiers to the Parliament to make sure he got his taxes to fight his wars - and his lifestyle - and then as a result the british Civil War started...

Royals exist as long as most people accept the idea of a royal family - and it still survive in some places in the world - I guess mostly because they do not want to go true the election of a President every now and then - and because as long as the royal family do not do anything catastrophic stupid - then most people tend to forgive and forget... And it is also a stable function in most country's life and history... I doubt Norway had been as stable the first couple of decades of our independence after 1905 if it was not for our royals who worked hard to make most people trust them - specially Haakon the 7th did a great job making sure by traveling all over the country that people get to know him - and to do his best - for all being over the political fray of the day... And that have been some of a mantra for all 3 generations of kings so far - be over the political fray.... (And I suspect they do a good job so far )

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