News from the Centre for Citizenship

According to a report in the News of the World newspaper, Britain’s heir to head of state, Charles Windsor is anti-American and is opposed to the American led war against the Baathist regime in Iraq. Although Mr. Windsor is supposedly colonel-in-chief of the Parachute Regiment, in which he has never served, he gave what the…

Oliver Cromwell, controversial Protector of Britain’s first republic, is demonised as a blood-thirsty thug in To Kill A King, a new movie starring Rupert Everett and Tim Roth. He is depicted as executing the ruling monarch Charles out of spite. Cromwell’s contribution to the development of Parliamentary democracy is marked by a statue outside the…

A minority of Britons, only 43 percent, think their country would be worse off without a “royal” family according to a Guardian/ICM poll. This is the lowest level of support since the question was first asked in 1987. Thirty-one percent thought Britain would be better as a republic. Twenty-six percent said they had no opinion.…