According to the The Guardian:
It is the 60th anniversary of Elizabeth II’s coronation on Sunday….
These are bad times for republicans. The last three years have been full of royal pageantry….
It is not so much what monarchy does that offends me, but what it does not do. It does not tell us that we are free and equal, and that any child born can do anything; in this, it is far more reactionary than Christianity. Instead it tells us, as it always has, that our places in society are ordained by an invisible God, and we should know them. If she is above, we can only be below – is this why conservatives adore it…
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