Sunday 24 May 2015

The King of France

New Whig
There are a lot of good reasons for being a Monarchist in Australia. Foremost is security. We live in a complex, changing world with some big players with big ambitions. Our security presently is enhanced by our unwritten treaties with the Anglo community, ie english speaking peoples, due to our shared monarch. Cutting ourselves off from this link, would not be replaced by actual treaties. Perhaps it is anger at how much we sacrificed for the "mother country" a century ago in this year of remembrance. Some people would welcome us coming under the Imperial control of, for example the Chinese, or of an Islamic Caliphate. We are large in area, taking up a whole continent and many islands, but we are average size in population but far above average in wealth. This is perhaps the most important reason to stay a Monarchy, however it is one we would rather not think about, as we believe we live in a fundamentally peaceful place where we will never need to rely on powerful relations, no matter how independent we might think we have grown to be.
Louis Alphonse de Bourbon, Duke of Anjou, 41, is the senior Bourbon claimant to the throne of France. The Spanish royal is the favoured candidate of a French…
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