R104 - It was prescient and it was clear that at that time it was also well sourced. Unfortunately, her later books were awful. It's too bad.
R107 - The demise of Britain at the hands of this that or the other PM is as boring as it has always been. They do not understand that whilst Britain does not have a written constitution, it does have constitutional law set by precedent. PMs come and go, just as the "temporary occupants of the Oval Office" as I believe Gen. Douglas MacArthur once called them.
It is, for example, "constitutionally set into law" that the Sovereign cannot change the line of succession: only Parliament can.
George Bush had only two children but still managed to decimate the balance of power in the Middle East.
I would be the first to express my dismay at the current state of my country. But, really - as the old saying has it around here, "Situation desperate but not serious".
And Britain is hardly alone - quite a few countries without monarchies are grappling with similar issues, and a few countries with hereditary monarchies (cf. Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, and The Netherlands) are doing quite fine with exactly the same hereditary monarchical system as Britain's.
The monarchy is, in fact, the least of Britain's problems right now.
The income inequality gap, which by the way is second only to America's - that great democracy that allowed the wealthy over the last forty years to get the tax code changes so that 90% of America's wealth is concentrated in 10% of the population - is a far greater problem.
Perspective is everything.
Meanwhile, back at the topic of the thread, I tend to distrust Lady C's sources at this point.
There are others around with better sources. And, as I said, I have an odd feeling some very unpleasant shit is about to hit the fan all at once: the Queen's possible demise, the ANL case, the Christmas hols. and yet again the stories of will they or won't they, and after doing a search, those stories about Spotify suing the Harkles are still current. Spotify has at no time come out and denied the rumours.
Stay tuned.