![]() Speculation, therefore, of the monarchy's imminent demise would appear shakily founded. The third would be by act of Parliament, a democratic procedure that contains its own catch: that the written royal assent is required before any such act becomes law. The second would be bloody insurrection with the tumbrils rolling down the Mall, and the swish of the guillotine or the rope looping over the lamppost to write the last bloody chapter to a sanguinary dynastic history. The first would be a disastrous war culminating in hostile invasion of the kind that ended the Russian, German and Austro-Hungarian empires after the conflict of 1914-18. There are only three ways to rid Britain of its royals. ![]() It will take more than the sudden death of a divorced princess and a deliciously readable almanac of all available gossip by Kitty Kelley to unseat an institution so resiliently durable. ![]() $27 THE BRITISH MONARCHY has endured for more than 11 centuries, give or take a regicide, a brief Cromwellian Republic, a Restoration, two Revolutions, two crown-shifting foreign invasions, repeated civil wars and an often meandering bloodline. ![]()
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