Word: bagehotian
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...advice that the Palace and its advisers stand indicted; it is because they have so fundamentally misunderstood the nature of modern British society, where celebrities are knocked down as fast as they are built up. I'm not surprised. Seventeen years ago, the Prince of Wales came to the Bagehotian establishment at which I then worked for a lunch with "people his own age." Most of the conversation was taken up with an agonized appraisal of the Prince's proper role, together with much royal muttering (conventional wisdom in 1985) that Britain had lost the dynamism for which it once...
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