Death in the Royal Family
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About a hundred and seventy thousand people died across the world today. Each one was a mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, friend, partner colleague, comrade. Many were loved, Many were good people. Many will be missed. Some died surrounded by their loved ones. Others alone. Some at peace. Others in pain.
By most accounts Prince Phillip was a loyal and dependable husband and father. It is a blow to any family to loose someone so significant. The British Royal Family likely feels the loss. He was one of those one hundred and seventy thousand.
The British Royal Family is an anachronism. It's a relic of a bygone era when people believed that some people were better than others by birth. That the children of rulers should also be rulers and that if you don't have any rulers of your own it is better to import some from Germany than to elevate someone from home.
The institution of the British Royal Family is archaic, racist, ineffective, and silly. The British Royal Family has less claim on wealth and fame even than sports heroes or movie stars. It is past time for England to abolish the monarchy. And for that matter the rest of what remains of the peerage system.