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The latest Royal Family controversy is much more than a side show

March 11, 2021
The latest Royal Family controversy is much more than a side show Gerry Hassan Scottish Review, March 10th 2021 The royal family soap opera continues – fascinating for many, a diversion for some, and a repugnant non-story for others. Meghan and Harry’s long trailed Oprah interview might be part of celebrity culture and rich privileged royals cashing in on the lucrative American market, but it is about much more and cannot be so easily dismissed. It has brought to a head issues of racism amongst the Windsors; how the institution understands its occupational health role and supports those struggling; how

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The Queen’s role in politics is one of the last remnants of feudalism

September 17, 2019
The Queen’s role in politics is one of the last remnants of feudalism Gerry Hassan Sunday National, September 15th 2019 The Queen has been publicly involved in politics in the past few weeks on an unprecedented scale. There has been Boris Johnson’s suspension of the UK Parliament, the nature of his advice to the Queen, the Court of Session judgement calling his actions ‘unlawful’, followed by Johnson saying when asked if he mislead the monarch: ‘absolutely not’. The Queen is the public front of an intricate, complex institution called ‘the Crown’. As any watchers of the Netflix series of the

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