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Literally the role of all of the modern constitutional monarchs.
Comment by ddraig-au at 11/03/2025 at 09:06 UTC
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Sure, but they inherit the job, they didn't get it because the looked the most impressive in the entire kingdom.
There's a great episode of "Meet the Ancestors" where they reconstruct from skeletal remains this really, really, terrifyingly huge monster a of a guy. Turns out it was the skeleton of a member of the Mycenaen Royal Family.
But, modern royalty? Not as impressive, on the whole.
Comment by AnaphoricReference at 11/03/2025 at 12:04 UTC
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We seem to have an alternation between monarchs that take the job of impressing seriously and monarchs that appear to do everything grudgingly, as if they resent being born in a golden cage. We currently have the second type.