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Op-ed: A radical thought: could constitutional monarchies be important aids to democracy?

By Dennis Altman, 16 May 2018
Malcolm and Lucy Turnbull met Prince Harry and his fiancee Meghan Markle in London in April (photo credit: AAP/Ella Pellegrini)
Malcolm and Lucy Turnbull met Prince Harry and his fiancee Meghan Markle in London in April (photo credit: AAP/Ella Pellegrini)
At a time of increasing pessimism about the state of politics, it is worth asking whether we in fact need the absurdities of constitutional monarchy to preserve liberal democracy.
Read the full article here: The Conversation