Psychology Books Uk

Psychology Books Uk

Psychology Books Uk

Britain in 2007 is a wealthy, confident, sophisticated society. Yet the British Head of State is unelected; determined by heredity.

A growing republican movement

The majority of British people, when asked in opinion polls, express either affection or indifference to the Royal Family. There is, however, a significant proportion who are becoming increasingly vocal in their opposition to the monarchy. Republic is a British group campaigning for an elected Head of State. It describes itself as “A grassroots campaign group calling for the abolition of monarchy and an end to all hereditary positions of power.” Formed in 1983, Republic currently has a membership of around 800.

One of Republic’s most vociferous supporters is Johann Hari, award-winning journalist and columnist with the UK newspaper The Independent. He argues in his 2002 book God Save the Queen?: “The monarchy is now an institution that can only produce psychologically and emotionally destroyed, unhappy people. It’s time we ended the misery.” Do Britons feel that the Windsor family are in some way specially adapted to the role of Royal Family through centuries of training and breeding in ways that a ‘normal’ family is not?