The Great Coronation

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The New King and Queen

The folderol over the ascension of Charles III to the kingship of Britain seems to have captivated much of the English-speaking world. Although the new king, consort and their country are but an antique anachronism, as can be seen by their costumes, that might very well be the reason that their silly deeds and ceremonies are fodder for the media. They are of no consequence. They can't even be disliked for the oppressive colonial policies that their distant forebears helped enforce. The most significant  emotion toward them might be envy since it's felt that they do no work, travel frequently and spend much of their time at baronial castles on their  thousands of acres of royal property. Rather than being genuine government figures they, and their extended families, are instead full-time actors in an international soap opera. There's no reason to care about the trials and tribulations of Meghan and Harry other than a lack of meaning in one's own life or a misguided voyeurism.

And those distant forebears: the father of Charles III was a member of the Greek royal family and his mother, Queen Elizabeth, was a descendant of the German Hanovers. These people are all members of an hereditary ruling class that inter-married and inspired revolutions all over Europe. It's fine if the British themselves wish to coddle these parasites but idiotic for Americans, Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders and citizens of other minor colonial outposts to pay any attention to them. Significantly there's no love for them in the Irish republic.

Perhaps not so oddly, we don't know much about the families of the movers and shakers in the rest of the world unless they're particularly flamboyant in the most evil senses. See Kim Jong Un and his sister Kim Yong Jun, of North Korea, and Xi Jinping, Chinese boss. The details of the peccadilloes of their daily lives, their romantic attachments and those of their associates aren't of interest to the public, even though, unlike the Brit royals, they have the wherewithal to exterminate much of life on earth. Wouldn't it be interesting to know who Kim Yong Jun is holding hands with?