> > Er, me. (Sitting in Glasgow.) Seriously, Britain is a representative
> > democracy, and while the royals (more Scots than anything else
> > anyway)
>A bunch of Greeks & Germans imported to improve the bloodline.
It is a nice irony that what eventually became the late
British Empire has not been ruled by an 'English' dynasty
since the early eleventh century: since then a motley
parade Normans (Plantagents), Welsh (Tudors), Scots
(Stuarts), Dutch (House of Orange) and Germans (Hanoverians)
have squatted on the imperial throne.
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities.
Which is why (desperately dragging this back onto Glorantha), I feel that a non-Lunar Tarshite can be a ardent Patriot of the King.
--Peter Metcalfe
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