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Queens Belong Only In Fairy Tales Says Republican Centre The Centre for Citizenship has condemned a proposal that British children swear allegiance to the Windsor family to encourage them to feel a sense of belonging to their country. The proposal was made by legislator-for-life Peter Goldsmith in a report to Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Mr.…

The Canadian government has failed in its latest attempt to block a legal challenge to the oath of allegiance to the Windsors. The Ontario Court of Appeal has ruled that a class action lawsuit that claims that the oath violates the Canadian Charter of Rights may proceed. At present applicants for Canadian citizenship are required…

The Prime Minister is no longer to have a say in the appointment of Church of England bishops. But according to the Sunday Telegraph this new freedom is making some of the state church’s leaders anxious. They fear it may bring to an end their church’s undemocratic privileges in the government of the country. The…

Research by VisitBritain has revealed that while the Palace of Versailles in republican France attracts millions of visitors each year, Buckingham Palace was visited by only 50,000 tourists last year. The London home of the Windsors came a long way down the list of attractions for overseas visitors. The other homes that British taxpayers provide…

The Canadian Federal Court has ruled that that country’s armed forces are free to humiliate republican soldiers by forcing them to show deference to the Windsor family. Soldiers who do not drink a toast to the British hereditary head of state or sing “God Save the Queen” may face a seven year sentence for disloyalty.…

The revelation that former Prime Minister Tony Blair has converted to Catholicism and that the Catholic Church has more weekly worshippers than the state Anglican Church has brought increased hope for democratic reform in Britain. Both the Times and The Financial Times have suggested that this may lead to reform of the Act of Settlement,…

The Republic group says that it will be lodging a formal complaint against the BBC about its five-part documentary “Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work”. Spokesperson Graham Smith said: “The BBC’s documentary was biased, deferential and unquestioning. Throughout the programme the royals were portrayed in a flattering light and ‘facts’ were relayed without question or…

The government of Nepal has agreed that the country’s monarchy should be abolished after the next election. The decision to bring an end to the feudal institution followed the withdrawal from the government of Maoist former rebels who wanted an immediate republic.

British legislator Conrad Black will be spending six and a half years in a federal prison in Florida following his conviction in a multi-million-dollar fraud trial. Black, who goes by the title of “Lord Black of Crossharbour”, was appointed in 2001 as a legislator-for-life in the British parliament. The former newspaper owner gave up his…

Liz Windsor, Britain’s hereditary head of state, has “made clear” that “Australians must decide for themselves” whether their country should become a republic. The generous concession to the democratic rights of the people of Australia was reported in an editorial in the Daily Telegraph newspaper, a strong supporter of feudalism, following the Labour Party success…