I’m on series two of Netflix’s “Victoria”, a dramatization of the life of England’s Queen Victoria & the glories & trials of the Victorian age. I’m hooked, even through the series is as much soap as it is biopic. Victoria was so interesting, ascending to the crown at 18, marrying for love, bearing 9 children & overseeing the empire. I’ve always thought monarchy to be odd, existing with little or no rational justification in any case ever. For much of history ‘might made right’ so those with the biggest armies & best strategies ruled. Then their sons and daughters ruled. I confess I am fascinated by the history of royalty. My wife laughs, not appreciating the irony of my fascination. I hope to be alive to see the implosion of the Mountbatten-Windsors. I am also not traditionally religious (Pythagorean by faith), but I am fascinated by this new American Pope - so I’m occasionally reading Catholic Digest. I consider both
#monarchy &
#religion to be curious oddities of the human condition. Thus, my fascination.