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Article: Why the monarchy must go.(Cover Story)(Column)
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- Newsweek
- Article date:
- March 11, 1996
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I WAS A TEENAGER IN SUBURBAN LIVERPOOL WHEN I decided I was a republican. It seemed to be a pretty easy act of rebellion -- a bit like wearing flared hipsters on Sunday. Yet it's a funny thing: like anyone halfway sensible, I've managed to jettison almost everything that I held dear 30 years ago. Not republicanism. The older I get, the more implacably I become convinced that Britain won't get some big questions right unless it dumps the monarchy. Plainly, republican sentiment has risen in Britain during the monarchy's awful 1990s, but it's still a minority taste, and it will take more than a few giddy antics from Chuck, Di and the gang to convince most Britons that they are ...