{"id":11,"date":"2005-01-14T21:52:26","date_gmt":"2005-01-15T01:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/01\/14\/what-would-the-tabloids-do-without-the"},"modified":"2005-01-14T21:52:26","modified_gmt":"2005-01-15T01:52:26","slug":"what-would-the-tabloids-do-without-the-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/01\/14\/what-would-the-tabloids-do-without-the-royals\/","title":{"rendered":"What Would the Tabloids Do Without the Royals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a4464'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/princharaz.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"173\" align=\"left\">Argument<br \/>\n        8,758 against hereditary monarchs&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The royal family, and especially<br \/>\n          Prince Philip, the queen&#8217;s husband, has<br \/>\n          committed an array of gaffes. Prince Philip reinforced his reputation<br \/>\n          for ill-chosen utterances in 1997 when he addressed Chancellor Helmut<br \/>\n          Kohl of Germany as Reichskanzler &#8211; the title used by Hitler.<\/p>\n<p>        Not only that. As The Evening Standard, among other newspapers, noted<br \/>\n          on Thursday, the royal family had an ambiguous relationship with Germany<br \/>\n          and<br \/>\n        the Nazis. The House of Windsor was formed in 1917 when the royal family<br \/>\n        changed its name from Saxe-Coburg Gotha, a name it acquired with the<br \/>\n          marriage in 1840 of Queen Victoria and Albert of Saxe-Coburg, which<br \/>\n          was then a duchy<br \/>\n        in central Germany.<\/p>\n<p>        In the 1930&#8217;s, moreover, some members were widely seen as openly sympathetic<br \/>\n        to the Nazis. In one iconic photograph, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor,<br \/>\n        smiling broadly, were seen greeting Hitler.<\/p>\n<p> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/01\/14\/international\/europe\/14royals.html?oref=login\">New<br \/>\n          York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Hey, just because his family comes from Germany and was chummy with<br \/>\n        Der Fuehrer, and he likes dressing up in Nazi regalia, that doesn&#8217;t make<br \/>\n        him<br \/>\n    a Neo-Nazi, or a Nazi sympathizer or anything. Even the Jewish grandson of<br \/>\n      a haberdasher who lost family in the Holocaust can admit they had the snappiest<br \/>\n    uniforms since the Roman Legion.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argument 8,758 against hereditary monarchs&#8230; The royal family, and especially Prince Philip, the queen&#8217;s husband, has committed an array of gaffes. Prince Philip reinforced his reputation for ill-chosen utterances in 1997 when he addressed Chancellor Helmut Kohl of Germany as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/01\/14\/what-would-the-tabloids-do-without-the-royals\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}