In one of his last works, the marvelous Roger Scruton admitted, with a touch of very
British
humour , that
"it is part of
the conservative spirit
of the English not to look too closely at things inherited, to hold away […] in the hope that they can go on without us.
Their institutions, the English believe, are best seen at a distance and through an autumnal mist
.
This is the case with the British monarchy, this strange regime where the monarch, head of state and head of the nation, is nominally all-powerful but does not decide anything - since conventionally, it is up to the Prime Minister to put in work of the powers qualified as
royal prerogative
-, but where this impotence is also a higher form of power, while the presence of the monarch continues to be felt as responding to a real need.
In these days when the whole world celebrates and mourns the one President Macron called
"The Queen"
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