I think the smug stroke of Blair's staff is enough to answer two questions - "People's Princess". Is the royal family a "privileged class"? Judging by my common sense, of course. However, the British people do not seem to reject such a "privileged class", the citizens of the proud empire on which the sun never sets needs the ancient glory to live forever.
So, how did the flower of democracy bloom in this ancient land? Not to mention the Glorious Revolution, Henry III, or the Bill of Rights. From "The Queen", we see that the British people have transformed the royal family with their own will, a royal family tailored for democratic politics. From a scientific point of view, they need and only need such a royal family.
This is a rather interesting question. In the event of Diana's death, we see a queen at the center of a democratic spiral. The image of Princess Diana was in line with the mainstream trend of thought in British society at that time. Marrying into the royal family caters to the needs of the British people for the royal family in their minds. The royal family, which has always been quite old-fashioned, is naturally intolerable. When "a royal funeral is only for me" meets "I could be Queen of England, but not here", we see the latter triumph. I'm not in favour of seeing royal changes as a decision by the Queen or a strategy for Blair's success. The truth is that in the midst of a wave of such magnitude, no one can have an independent will. No intention to belittle the people in these whirlpools, but we have to face the facts. The ethics of personal freedom is often not worth mentioning under social values. After all, this is a problem of the limitations of human society, let alone such a special "privileged class"?
Democracy is, after all, about the right to speak. When public opinion and media reports are rampant; "one in four people think that the monarchy should be abolished", the glorious royal family is powerless after all. As for Blair's two visits to the Queen, and the image of the royal family as a family, it's just a side dish on top of that.
The title is "Thinking about the Democratic Political Process of the East and the West from "The Queen". What about Eastern democracies? Actually, my attitude is very clear. Democracy is about the right to speak, and this sentence suffices.
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