As a counterweight to this site's tribute to historian David Starkey, I would recommend a perusal of
today's Guardian which says that monarchies survive "by that liberal sprinkling of holy oil which tries to turn an accident of history into a national myth," and that historians like Starkey "should be exposers of this cheap glamour rather than its cheerleaders." What I find most offensive in this opinion piece, which goes on to illustrate how the Gurdian seems now to be little more than a conveyor of unremarkable nobody's opinions than actually analysing real issues and news, is the fact it denounces monarchists in Wales and Scotland as 'quislings.'