Who is this speaking with a sneer on their lips and contempt in their voice before news of the Princess of Wales’s cancer broke? A monarchist or a republican?
‘Kate’s admission that she had doctored the photograph, and her apology for doing so, were the latest self-inflicted wound by the House of Windsor, for which trust and integrity are fundamental commodities.’
There is a limit to how much of this treatment modern members of the royal family will take
Those who do not know the UK might assume it was a revolutionary who wants to undermine trust in the integrity of the monarchy because they want it gone. Republican sentiment in the UK is indeed stronger than tourists like to imagine and the BBC cares to admit.
Irish nationalists and Brits of Irish descent are wary of the crown. Just 45 per cent of Scots want to keep the royals ‘for the foreseeable future’, with 36 per cent ready to get rid of them as soon as possible.
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