With much silliness – and acres of column inches – over the birth of the latest British royal, seventh in line to our throne, this article in The New York Times nails it. We just have to keep the royals in perspective: there’s nothing new or particularly modern to see. Although a self-proclaimed feminist, Meghan must be a conservative and a monarchist to fulfil her ordained role of wife, womb and wardrobe. It’s all reinvention of the same stuff and the same history. There are no real change agents in the British royal family, imported or otherwise. Click on link below for the full story. [“Meghan Markle is the Duchess the Royal Family Needs” by Tanya Gold in The New York Times online, 6 May 2019]. Tanya Gold is a British journalist who writes for Harper’s Magazine.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
