| Royalty, like grains of arsenic, should be taken in small doses to be beneficial. Taken in larger quantities, it can have sickening side-effects. Taken too seriously, it can prove fatal. |
| The British public seems to be reacting to an overdosage of information about its monarchy and there is very danger that the appetite of the public, sickening from a surfeit of unsavoury revelations, may die. That would be a tragedy, for the substitute for a hereditary Presidency. And it could be argued that if one is to have the less worthy heir of a worthier father, it might as well be one who has been trained for the job. [EXTRACT] |
| Published in THE NATION 4 Feb. 1993, and reprinted in THE ARMLESS QUEEN (1994). |
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