On Monday morning the British Monarchy launched their first official page on Facebook.
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It seems unnecessarily churlish to focus on the uselessness of the British monarchy during a royal wedding.
But, there is another side to the story, as the British monarchy is about to find out.
Aside from any potential frustrations, these three men have an historic opportunity to shape the future of the British monarchy.
William Blake mocked the British monarchy with his illustration of Nebuchadnezzar eating grass from a story in the Book of Daniel.
The young nation that would become the United States is just forming and trying to establish itself as independent from the British monarchy.
But it is the relationship between the two brothers that looks set to define the future of the British monarchy most of all.
Robert Hardman, a royal correspondent for the Daily Mail, offers a convincing tour of the British monarchy as an institution, apeing the vantage point of the fly-on-the-wall documentary.
Labor's picture of the country focused on multiculturalism, closer ties with Asia, breaking the constitutional link with the British monarchy and making amends for past wrongs to indigenous people.
Earlier, arriving in ascending order of royal rank, members of the British Monarchy and Middleton family made their way down the red-carpeted nave of Westminster Abbey, greeting guests before being seated.
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Her role is clear: "As Head of State The Queen has to remain strictly neutral with respect to political matters, unable to vote or stand for election, " according to the British Monarchy's website.
He is particularly withering in his scorn for what he sees as the mystifications of the English parliamentary tradition (allegedly nurtured since the Middle Ages), the trumpery of modern British monarchy, the obscurities of English common law and the mediocrity of the current batch of British politicians.
Thai reverence for the royal family far exceeds the respect given today to the British or even the Japanese monarchy by their subjects.
Founded in 1934, it played a key role in the coup which ousted the British-backed monarchy in 1958.
Two years after his homecoming, nationalist army officers led by Gamal Abdel Nasser seized power, overthrowing the British-backed monarchy.
The Queen follows the divisions between the British public, the government and the monarchy immediately after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.
He has been backing a strongly liberal economic policy, which has annoyed the old tribal conservatives on whom the Hashemite monarchy has depended since it was installed by the British 80-plus years ago.
The Bank of England and the development of government bonds enabled the British government to borrow prodigious sums of money at low interest rates, in contrast with the usurious rates the French monarchy had to pay.
Many aspects of Britishness, especially in social and economic fields, such as the monarchy (provided people want it) or the British market in goods, labour and services, would remain in place after independence.
Third, the monarchy has benefited from a decline in party allegiance and a dilution of ideology in British politics that has not similarly helped the Church.
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