The Prince of Cambridge, George Alexander Louis
I did not originally plan to make a post for this topic, for no reason other than my own feeling that I had nothing substantive to add. Nevertheless, these are moments that in this day and age are somewhat rare and that alone adds some value to them, beyond the daily miracle that such an event is in the abstract.
He is born into a world that is very much in a period of change that rivals periods of the past. It's not clear where these changes will go, or if he will have any direct impact on these changes. Even so, Prince George by the very idea that he might be born a girl and not a boy altered age-old edict that held for succession to the throne as right of first born males. That rule now only provides for the right of first born, period.
I have no words I can offer to a prince of a mostly powerless monarchy. When he becomes king, his majesty George will hold a ceremonial post, unable to by title alone change much by way of policy. He is not a head of state, and commands no army. Yet his title alone, now as a prince third in line to the throne and in the future as king, will provide that his words carry much weight and allow him a platform from which to speak.
And that is perhaps, as we are learning once more, of greater importance than holding political power. It was the voices of the people which incited action, the action that made the led to the end of the rule of monarchies and so diminished the rule of the monarchy young Prince George has been born into.
We live now in what is called the information age, a period in which the growth of information technology and its progressive filtering to more and more people, allows us to communicate with people around the world at a moment's notice. We have lived through, in the last few years, the extent to which this technology allows words to carry weight that guns and ammo cannot. The irony that these voices bring down some of the remaining autocracies of the world is not an irony that is easily overlooked, but it's no longer one that the future King George has to worry too much about. But this is the age he will grow up in, and it is likely that he will need to master digital communication whereas the kings George, Alexander, and Louis before him all spent far more time in more direct political engagement.
That is all in the future. Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge has a loving mother and father in Catherine and William watching over him and raising him. They seem poised to be the most approachable and "down to earth" royals Great Britain has produced in a long time, if ever. We will watch as George grows up under the care of his royal parents and their family, royal and common alike. For however much or however little it means, I send my well wishes to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and their son Prince George.
He is born into a world that is very much in a period of change that rivals periods of the past. It's not clear where these changes will go, or if he will have any direct impact on these changes. Even so, Prince George by the very idea that he might be born a girl and not a boy altered age-old edict that held for succession to the throne as right of first born males. That rule now only provides for the right of first born, period.
I have no words I can offer to a prince of a mostly powerless monarchy. When he becomes king, his majesty George will hold a ceremonial post, unable to by title alone change much by way of policy. He is not a head of state, and commands no army. Yet his title alone, now as a prince third in line to the throne and in the future as king, will provide that his words carry much weight and allow him a platform from which to speak.
And that is perhaps, as we are learning once more, of greater importance than holding political power. It was the voices of the people which incited action, the action that made the led to the end of the rule of monarchies and so diminished the rule of the monarchy young Prince George has been born into.
We live now in what is called the information age, a period in which the growth of information technology and its progressive filtering to more and more people, allows us to communicate with people around the world at a moment's notice. We have lived through, in the last few years, the extent to which this technology allows words to carry weight that guns and ammo cannot. The irony that these voices bring down some of the remaining autocracies of the world is not an irony that is easily overlooked, but it's no longer one that the future King George has to worry too much about. But this is the age he will grow up in, and it is likely that he will need to master digital communication whereas the kings George, Alexander, and Louis before him all spent far more time in more direct political engagement.
That is all in the future. Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge has a loving mother and father in Catherine and William watching over him and raising him. They seem poised to be the most approachable and "down to earth" royals Great Britain has produced in a long time, if ever. We will watch as George grows up under the care of his royal parents and their family, royal and common alike. For however much or however little it means, I send my well wishes to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and their son Prince George.
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