...complex laws and notions for the inquiring few. A family on the throne is an interesting idea also. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level...life. No feeling could seem more childish than the entKusiasm of the English at the marriage of the Prince of Wales. They treated as a great political...

...not by the many people we cannot imagine. . . ." A family on the throne is an interesting idea also. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life. No feeling could 4 From The English Constitution, by Walter Bagehot; pp. 101-102; 106-107; 112-113; 119-120; 127-128....

...of the British Empire gives emphasis. ''A family on the Throne is," he writes, "an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life. No feeling could be more childish than the enthusiasm of the English at the marriage of the Prince of Wall's [Edward...

...who care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry. 'A family on the throne', Bagehot wrote, 'brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life. To state the matter shortly, Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated...

...familiarizing the populace with a wifely and maternal Victoria: "A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life." 2 Albert's death in 1861 further solidified Victoria's bourgeois image because she "refused ever again...

...and the Book, bk. 5, I. 296 (1868-1869). Royalty A family on the throne is an interesting idea.... It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life. WALTER BAGEHOT, (1826-1877) British economist, critic. The English Constitution, ch. 3(1867). All the...

...position was well described by Bagehot in 1867: A. family on the throne is an interesting idea ... It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level...the English at the marriage of the Prince of Wales ... A princely marriage is a brilliant edition of a universal fact, and as such it rivets mankind.2...

...Bagehot also noted the Queen's other chief strategy: "A family on the throne is an interesting idea also. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life."42 As Margaret Homans says, adapting Nancy Armstrong's well-known formulation, "the modern British...

...affirming women's apparent disinterest in the real 'business' of politics (as distinct from marriage): No feeling could seem more childish than the enthusiasm...pure business, was very small indeed. But no feeling 32 It is significant that the current Labour Government's proposals to remove the hereditary rights...

...whose conduct was deemed most unbecoming. Bagehot had cautioned that 'a family on the throne . . . brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.' It went a lot lower than this and came to resemble the kind of television serial Diana was so addicted...