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The crown, and elite capture

Avatar photo by Michael Romain September 14, 2022September 14, 2022

In a 1944 letter to Partisan Review magazine, George Orwell wrote that “the Abdication of Edward VIII must have dealt royalism a blow from which it may not recover.” But Edward VIII, who was king for less than a year before he abdicated in 1936 — when he chose love for a twice-divorced American woman […]

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