Comments on: NEW COLUMN: Bar Meghan Markle From The Great Lady’s Funeral https://barelyablog.com/new-column-bar-meghan-markle-from-the-great-ladys-funeral/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Not Convinced https://barelyablog.com/new-column-bar-meghan-markle-from-the-great-ladys-funeral/comment-page-1/#comment-31453 Tue, 13 Sep 2022 15:34:54 +0000 https://barelyablog.com/?p=160546#comment-31453 Ilana, enjoyed your article. It brought back a memory. Having met the Queen and the then Prince and having had brief conversations with both almost 40 years ago I clearly remember how gracious both were but how warm and genuinely attentive the Queen was. The Prince certainly appeared attentive but it was as though he was somewhere or nowhere else.
The idea of a monarchy as preferable to our current kakocracy is something that popped into my head late last year. I have not given it any serious thought but it keeps knocking around my noggin. Since faking reality is the standard of much of our political life when the inescapable consequences of our folly smack us would a monarchy in similar peril be in a better position to come out of the psychosis without war? I doubt it. The end of the European monarchies was war. But then war is one of the constants of our species behavior. Perhaps it is inevitable.

]]> By: Juvenal Early https://barelyablog.com/new-column-bar-meghan-markle-from-the-great-ladys-funeral/comment-page-1/#comment-31440 Sat, 10 Sep 2022 12:49:19 +0000 https://barelyablog.com/?p=160546#comment-31440 Ilana, as always, makes good points in her column, especially with regard to the Bush girls. I was just pondering with a friend of mine that QEII may be the most famous person who’s died in our lifetimes. Indeed, I’m pretty old to be just now starting on my second British monarch (& 1st king!). I liked the queen, at least as far as her being the most visible face of monarchy in our lifetime. And as we all know from reading Hoppe, monarchy is far better than democracy.

Sean Gabb makes great points in both of his columns. The Royals let down John Bull when he most needed them. The Windsors are the latest in the descent since the Glorious Revolution of 1688, when Mary & her Dutch husband William of Orange usurped Mary’s Catholic dad James II. An ignominious beginning for the Hanovers, who would eventually re-brand themselves as the Windsors, after the original surname became a little tainted.

By the way, nice to see John Lydon, once known as Johnny Rotten, do a straight-up version of the original “God Save the Queen,” in tribute to the lady he’d always liked. For years, he’d dreaded the prospect of the British media dredging up the “God Save the Queen” that his band the Sex Pistols created back in the seventies, as a sort of mockery. Hearing that John Lydon liked the Queen was as delightful as hearing that Mick Jagger liked Margaret Thatcher, or that Eric Clapton was good friends with his MP Enoch Powell.

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