A Monarchist-Anarchist note

Something has gone awry in English monarchy;  

it has fossilised.    

                                       It is quite obviously doubtful that we are in a Monarchic Age.  Before the rollicking blip of Charles II, there was posited the notion of "Divine Right", or divinity, a complete misconception of anointment.   This  attitude, not seen since Caligula, was impassioned once again by Cranmer in the post-Renaissance, northern humanism.
Absolutism could also be called Obsolescence.

Monarchy hints at nothing more than a dynamic mystique of grace, thrust by martial prowess and chivalric magnanimity.
 
Unsurprisingly, the upset began with a break with the 

direct line - Richard III, - the carpark king -
a meekling, deposed in a military coup by Henry VII 

on Boswell field.  Perhaps it began and ended with the
ignoble falsification of his reputation (why the need 

to explain, prove or justify your 'right' ? - quite un-royal, but the absolutist position par-excellance).  


The usurper's son, Henry VIII, caused a major disruption 

by heeding his low-born advisers - parvenus all -
in staging the Dissolution, murdering Queens,

and unwittingly ushering in (after relatively short
 
reigns of Edward VII, Lady Jane Grey, Mary I) the Elizabethan age - 

of Elizabeth I ,who's mother, Ann Boleyn was judiciously and cowardly executed by her own father.
She, in her turn, had her unplanned successor James 1

mothers head toppled (Mary, Queen of Scots). 
James I, as Elizabeth before him, were puppet-

monarchs to the Cecil Lords.  This whole period could be
viewed as a ill-conceived and badly conducted relapse to  viking, pagan barbarism*, an attempt to return and renew but driven by a feeling but without lucidity.

The Tudor period stands as a reign of one of the most disordered and psychopathic dynastic episodes in world history.

 
In this gross deviation from organic tradition, Monarchy became hampered by advisers, mandarins, ministers, bureaucrats, 'judges', and parliaments.  The familiar territory of Pharisees and Sadducee's.   

Suffice to say, by the introductions of  the Hanoverians we had essentially, a surrogate, cadet line filling the vacuum of real (royal) Monarchy.  From Anointement, we arrive at mere Appointment. 

   
Now that they actually no longer rule in any way defacto, and the 'right' is disturbingly questioned, and largely now a matter of 'better than nothing' - solely a shadow, an ambassadorial vassal, merely a commercial brand worth maintaining, no longer for the rights of it's subjects - but justified solely by 'divine' right.   


*in the skin of a "reformed christianity".  In truth, it had nothing to do with theology, only an ersatz, boring
emulation of prior papal excesses in the Italian Renaissance.

Cranmer, by Gerlach Flicke.