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The Queen Is Dead. Long Live…The Anglosphere? ( [link removed] )

From VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow:  I’ve sternly repressed a lot of memories since leaving Britain for the U.S. in 1970, ( [link removed] ) as I wrote ( [link removed] ) when reflecting on the 2017 movie Dunkirk ( [link removed] ). But, just as with that movie, the touchingly sincere commiserations I’ve received today from American friends on the death of Queen Elizabeth II ( [link removed] ) has brought them flooding back.

I suddenly remember, at the age of four in 1952, watching my late father ( [link removed] ) coming home from work, switching on BBC Radio and standing erect ( 6 ½ years ( [link removed] ) in the British Army) during the funereal music and announcement that George VI had died, and that Princess Elizabeth ( [link removed] ) , then touring the Empire as Royals seemed to do ( [link removed] ) in the winter months, was now Queen.

This long-buried personal memory is a minor example of the way that monarchies are Jungian ( [link removed] ) institutions, in the sense of drawing on primordial human archetypes and emotions, in a way that elected officials cannot.

Monarchies have surprisingly deep roots, as I learned in Toronto when, professionally surrounded by New Class journalists and misled by the relentless Leftist propaganda ( [link removed] ) of Canada’s MSM, I ( [link removed] ) complained to fellow-motorists to about a traffic jam caused by the visit of a minor Royal. ( [link removed] ) I was surprised to find they reacted very badly.

Similarly, I remember British Conservative leader Michael Howard ( [link removed] ) , in the pre-purge ( [link removed] ) days when I was still invited to Bill Buckley’s ( [link removed] ) National Review Editorial dinners, expressing utter astonishment at the emotional outpouring that followed Princess Diana’s death.

Men I respect, like Mark Steyn ( [link removed] ) , are deeply affected by Queen Elizabeth’s death. But...

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