The Queen Is Dead. Long Live…The Anglosphere?
From VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow: I’ve sternly repressed a lot of memories since leaving Britain for the U.S. in 1970, as I wrote when reflecting on the 2017 movie Dunkirk. But, just as with that movie, the touchingly sincere commiserations I’ve received today from American friends on the death of Queen Elizabeth II has brought them flooding back.
I suddenly remember, at the age of four in 1952, watching my late father coming home from work, switching on BBC Radio and standing erect (6 ½ years in the British Army) during the funereal music and announcement that George VI had died, and that Princess Elizabeth, then touring the Empire as Royals seemed to do in the winter months, was now Queen.
This long-buried personal memory is a minor example of the way that monarchies are Jungian 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 of Canada’s MSM, I complained to fellow-motorists to about a traffic jam caused by the visit of a minor Royal. I was surprised to find they reacted very badly.
Similarly, I remember British Conservative leader Michael Howard, in the pre-purge days when I was still invited to Bill Buckley’s National Review Editorial dinners, expressing utter astonishment at the emotional outpouring that followed Princess Diana’s death.
Men I respect, like Mark Steyn, are deeply affected by Queen Elizabeth’s death. But...
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