But when somebody spends their life refusing to recognise a monarchy as a republican but then goes to an event celebrating
a monarchy?
Maybe I'm getting fluffier in my old age but I don't see a major problem in acknowledging the fact that QEII has sat on the british throne for 75 years and accepting that there are millions that want to celebrate the fact. I'm not a royalist and I think it absolutely bizarre that someone should be feted because they exited a particular vagina nearly 100 years ago but if that's what brits want to celebrate let them off. Not as bizzarre as her having TWO birthdays every year I grant you. I mean even Jesus had only one birthday per year. Just as long as they don't expect me to tug the forelock to her or her children or somehow imagine they have dominion over my country.
I can acknowledge her longevity and the fact that millions look on her as some kind of leader, much as millions others look similarly on the Pope for example, without being subservient to her, or to him for that matter.