Pilot wrote: ↑Fri May 25, 2018 5:59 pm
I'm back....the reason I missed the whole wedding thing....I left for Mallorca the day before the wedding, it was on Spanish TV because I heard some of the staff at the hotel chatting about it but I managed to miss it all, my wife has threatened to download it on catch up but she'll have to watch it on her own. Its just not my cup of tea but good luck to them I quite like Harry from what I have seen of him and I'm sure his wife will shake up the Family, it needs a good shake.
Pilot, 'the family' is only an outward manifestation of what you really disapprove of and if any of them, from top to bottom, try to do any 'shaking up', they will go the same way as King Edward VIII and Princess Diana.
There has been a lot of talk in The US following the election that unexpectedly brought President Trump to power, of 'The Deep State'. Put another way: that section of society that lurk below the parapet, their names mostly unknown to the public at large, but as Governments come and go, they keep the Country firmly in their grip and make all of the important decisions.
In early Victorian times, 'Society' consisted of about 10,000 people. They married and bred within their own circle, the owned most of the land, occupied all the top positions in Government, the Civil Service, the Military Services, the Church etc and it was they who Ruled the Country, while if anything went wrong, The Monarch proved to be a good lightening-conductor. The Monarch also was a convenient top to a pyramid from which honours showered down on the favoured 10,000, from Non-royal Dukedoms to Knighthoods. Very few of those Honours came from the Monarch, who simply signed the Grants of Nobility that the most powerful people in Society had actually awarded to themselves and their friends.
'Society' has evolved since then and it has become possible, for the new rich to find their way into the club, but it is very much still alive and kicking and that is why good old 'lefties 'like Pa and Ma Kinnock, whose hatred of the House of Lords was well known, now wear their red and ermine robes with pride and in due course, their son (just like in the old days of inherited Titles) will, when he has finished his time as a Labour MP, surely follow them to The Lords.

The royal family are still acting as a lightening-conductor to take the flak from the disgruntled in a population who usually, when given the opportunity, would gladly seize the chance of joining the club they so despise.
