Who’d have thought it? I have finally stopped calling myself a royalist! My attachment to nobility remains but the events of this week have just been too hysterical! In a “ pandemic”, 50 thousand of the great and good have descended on Glasgow to tell us that we must reduce foreign travel and consumption. And there was the image that sealed the fate of my royalist sympathies. That broach on the queen’s lapel tells you more than Biden’s flown in motorcade. The panic and the restraint are for us and not them!
I needed to regain some hope, some belief in virtue that endures. So what are we left with? Well perhaps what was always there amongst the ruins……
So it was with a heavy heart that I turned to my collection. But, the image of the knight never fails to lift one’s spirits…
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