The royals have never been known for moderation, if anything, they have always been known for ostentation and excesses, from the Olympian level womanizing of Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala to the sadistic torturing habits of Don Carlos, in this one sentence I have taken myself and the reader from the the Indian subcontinent to the Spanish one and essentially proved my point. And this has been true for the royals worldwide( if not the torturing part then the cruelty gene persists very well, case in point Ivan the Terrible who killed 3000 people and his own son in fits of rages and then asked churches to pray for the departed souls in an episode of remorse, and the famous example of Nero, who kept on playing a lute and Rome burned meanwhile, there are countless other examples of such behavior).
Today’s article is more centered on the British monarchy, a monarchy that has both abused and endured abuse for it’s colonizing, especially in the 20th century where their rule extended worldwide almost and while they propagated innovations and the Anglophile spirit, they essentially plundered whichever region they set foot in.
Since the late 90s, the divorce of Charles and Diana, the death of Diana, an event that beatified her kind philanthropic spirit and plunged the entire world into sadness, the current batch of royals have reveled in scandal too, owing especially the bad boy behavior of Prince Harry, who once charmed us all with his toothy smile but since the publication of his memoir, he has become an ultimately divisive figure, and so is wife Meghan, who although she married a Prince can never officially claim the title of Princess because she wasn’t directly born into the royal family, although her status will be of one and hopefully, with good PR, her acts too