Monday, September 22, 2008

What is a neomonarchist?

Theodore Harvey

Neomonarchists
see monarchy as entirely separate from Left/Right political divisions. Their own political views are likely to range from liberal to moderately conservative, or they may not be very interested in politics at all. While respectful of the religious traditions associated with royalty, they are usually not particularly religious themselves. Neomonarchists are primarily concerned with the support of existing constitutional monarchies, such as the ten currently reigning in Europe, and it is this model of monarchy that they would advocate in the case of any possible restoration. Many of them enthusiastically follow the lives of contemporary royals, and are inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt when they are criticized. Neomonarchists tend to be socially liberal and so are unlikely to object to non-traditional marital alliances such as that of the Crown Prince of Norway with an unwed mother who had confessed to using drugs. They embrace multiculturalism and see monarchy as a potential unifying figure in Europe’s increasingly diverse countries, as exemplified by Denmark’s part-Chinese Princess Alexandra and the Prince of Wales’s interest in Islam. They
enjoy contemporary popular culture and welcome royals’ interactions with it. Most importantly, neomonarchists are those royalists who have made their peace with modernity and do not see any fundamental conflict between monarchism (they may prefer to say “interest in royalty”) and liberal democratic values. Not especially prone to nostalgia, they are nevertheless often quite fascinated by the royal personalities of past eras, and have no problem sympathizing on a human level with members of autocratic royal families such as Russia’s Romanovs while rejecting everything that these royals stood for ideologically.

3 comments:

Theodore Harvey said...

Here is the link to my original complete article:

http://www.royaltymonarchy.com/opinion/twokinds.html

If you still disagree with me, fine, but at least read the whole thing.

James Gillan said...

Have a look at thos web site and blog which I write www.freethepeople.co.uk I'm interested in contacting Sophie Elisabeth Marie Gabrielle with a view to presenting her with documents.
The documents reffered to can be seen in their entirety there.

Great blog.
James N. Gillan


James Gillan said...

Have a look at this web site and blog which I write at www.freethepeople.co.uk I'm interested in contacting Sophie Elisabeth Marie Gabrielle with a view to presenting her with documents.
The documents reffered to can be seen in their entirety there.

Great blog you have here yourself.

James N. Gillan