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  • Andrew RT Davies thinks keeping the Monarchy is a question of maintaining constitutional stability.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • We believe that the National Assembly represents a new democratic spirit in Wales, and that the Monarchy is an outdated and archaic institution, which has no place in a modern, thriving Wales.

    Archive 2008-08-01 2008

  • True, the Monarchy is a cherished bond between certain members and the fact that the Queen, as Monarch, is "Head of the Commonwealth" has its own importance though it is a little unknown to history before 1949 and even now of no legal or constitutional significance.

    Canada and the Commonwealth 1958

  • Besides, said they, a Monarchy is a divine form of Government, and agrees most with our Religion: For as there is but one God, whom we all unanimously worship and adore with one Faith; so we are resolved to have but one Emperor, to whom we all submit with one obedience.

    The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World 1668

  • What struck me as odd was William Graham's claim on the Politics Show that the Monarchy is hugely popular here in Wales.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • I think we have been able to keep it alive, much in the same way as the Monarchy is being kept alive by subtly adapting it all the time, as we go along, without having any dramatic revolutionary changes.

    The Lord Mayor of London 1977

  • Indeed, a very wise Canadian, the Right Honourable Vincent Massey, considers that: "The Monarchy is so essential to us that without it as a bastion of Canadian nationality, of Canadian purpose and of Canadian independence, we could not remain a Sovereign State."

    Loyal Societies Dinner 1967

  • Of course the Monarchy is sidling along with the Church, hopefully.

    Europe—A Search For Ideas 1945

  • We are an Empire within an Empire and the British Monarchy is the bond that unites all of us in this Great Commonwealth.

    England Canada and India 1945

  • The affection for the King, for the Monarchy, is marvellous, really.

    Some Impressions of My Stay in England 1935

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