This is a proposal for the admission of republican principles into the narrow, national debate. The author examines the Royals as a national fetish that encourages servile attitudes on the one hand - and snobbish ones on the other. Taking care to delineate and discredit certain vulgar and pseudo-republican claims, Hitchins goes on to call for constitutional and political reform that the Royal phenomenon currently impedes.
- ISBN10 0701135557
- ISBN13 9780701135553
- Publish Date 8 January 1990
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 January 1997
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Chatto & Windus
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 44
- Language English