A new disadvantage of Britain’s hereditary system for filling the office of head of state has appeared. Henry Windsor, an army officer, has been posted to Iraq with his regiment. According to press reports special forces soldiers may be diverted from their normal duties
if he gets into trouble in the war zone.
This special treatment at the expense of the taxpayers and the normal duties of highly trained fighters is because Mr. Windsor is deemed by Britain’s feudal system to have the genetic superiority to be eligible to be head of state. He will take that office if two other members of his family who are before him in line die before he does. The soldiers protecting him in Iraq were barred at birth from becoming Britain’s head of state.
This absurdity of Britain’s feudal system was further underlined by the revelation that Mr. Windsor is referred to in his regiment as “Wales” rather than “Windsor”. This is because in Britain’s state run class system he is considered to be a “prince” of Wales.