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Article: The Prince and the Professor: A Dialogue on the Place of the Monarchy in the 21st Century.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 1996
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The format of this book, with its important and very current theme, is that of an extended (and much interrupted) series of seminars between an old don and a young prince. The catalyst for this particular debate is a comparison between the dialogue of a prince and a professor in the fifteenth century and the one in some current time.
Between 1468 and 1471, Sir John Fortescue, appointed Lord Chancellor by the Lancastrian government in exile, instructed the young Prince of Wales, Edward, the son of Henry VI, on the state of things as they were then and how he could improve on them when he was restored to his rightful place and became king. These discussions, entitled De ...