"England is a Crowned Republic". David Starkey

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[@ladyhonor822]

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PHILADELPHIA USA🇺🇲

[@RussiaIsARiddle778]

Dr. Starkey, as an American based world history teacher for several decades, I have gained from your vast repertoire of “television, historian“ material. My students have gained as well. I subscribed to this channel as soon as I found it during the pandemic and after your ridiculous “cancellation“. As I understand it, you have a home in the US and I wondered if that means you lecture from time to time in the US. If so, I would love information on how I might come to one of your lectures in person. I would be happy to take you to lunch, as you have stated in your videos. It would be a great honor to meet you. Thank you. Audrey H.

[@bartsanders1553]

I find one of the great pleasures of listening to David Starkey, CBE (Not quite fully cancelled in that regard) is when I find myself laughing at his underhanded jokes which he also giggles at. He has great clarity in his communication which makes his work accessible even to us yanks.

[@RussiaIsARiddle778]

@@bartsanders1553 I couldn’t agree more. Cheers!

[@DS9TREK]

He did have a home in New England but he sold it not so long ago, so I'm not sure he spends too much time in the US these days.

[@RussiaIsARiddle778]

@@DS9TREK Thank you. I will have to try to get into something in England in the future.

[@OldSonyMan]

Bravo, keep on 'doing your thing' 👍

[@alexandradane3672]

Superlative analysis and assessment . Thank you so very much Dr. David Starkey .

[@carmenfoster6912]

Hello Dr.Starkey! Welcome! We're here awaiting all your perspectives on history and of life!❤😊

[@debbielangton8371]

Nice to see you sir🙌🇬🇧

[@Patsy_Parisi]

He was my professor at the London School of Economics

[@katherinecollins4685]

Really interesting

[@barefootonasandybeach638]

Outstanding summary..

[@plweis7203]

Brilliant analysis once again. Thank you as always

[@stevebryce54]

So much better than good! Brilliant in fact.

[@KathyMethven-s9h]

Britain has a foot in both camps

[@jayturner3397]

Fascinating article 👍 🇬🇧

[@AbAb-th5qe]

I'd rather have King Charles than some grotty partisan politician as head of state any day

[@AbAb-th5qe]

@whiskeywarlord9425 Yeah. The King can't do much. Updating the rules is for the HOC to debate. He's like the referee at a football match (or should be) and 'above the fray'. The US president is more like a medeival king than our's is. Look at how well that's going.

[@DS9TREK]

​@@AbAb-th5qea president wouldn't be able to do much either. See the president's of Ireland, Israel, Germany, etc for what a British president could be

[@AbAb-th5qe]

@@DS9TREK Artifical and without continuity? No thanks

[@markbowden7238]

The people don't like being massacred in unnecessary wars.

[@willhovell9019]

AJP Taylor was also a TV Historian too and no less interesting . Share his view on the catastrophe of Stuart Kings on England, witch trials, ignorance of Parliament, failure to produce legitimate long lived heirs, in the pay of the French King, and tyranny against the people. Good topic for discussion re the 'crowned republic'.

[@shedactivist]

Interesting that John Adams identified stated that England was a Royal Republic when the other founding father Thomas Payne describes the English monarchy as a crooked tyranny in his essay 'Common Sense', where he makes the case for American Independence.

[@AbAb-th5qe]

Yeah, no crooked tyrants over there ever huh?

[@DS9TREK]

​@@AbAb-th5qewhy so defensive?

[@DS9TREK]

Payne was hardly writing with an open mind though. He had already decided the colonies needed independence and was going to use any argument to bring the public opinion to his side.

[@AbAb-th5qe]

@@DS9TREK I'm not. Projecting much?

[@shedactivist]

@@DS9TREK Yes, I realize that. I just thought it was interesting

[@davidstronach3261]

I love David Starkey he is honest and sincere

[@tatata1543]

He’s also a racist. Still, nobody’s perfect, eh?

[@streaky81]

That's really weird, I just came to this whole concept of a crowned republic and the UK being one related to something entirely different entirely separately, literally today.

[@renshiwu305]

Great Britain is Greater England.

[@josephturner7569]

I'd let the geographers know then. Oh yeah. And tell the French.

[@Robert-Downey-Syndrome]

It's a crowded republic.

[@kimberlyperrotis8962]

I was indignant on your behalf, Dr. Starkey, when an ignorant American reporter once called you by the that worst of names “A Royals Watcher”. My fellow Americans embarrass me sometimes. Of course England/UK is a republic, that should be obvious to anyone, it has elected representatives. It has been a Republic for much longer than any other I know of.

[@carmenfoster6912]

They did what? I can't believe somebody had the nerve to call Dr.Starkey a " Royal Watcher "! Blasphemous!

[@bartsanders1553]

I suppose we could be grateful they didn't call him an "Opinion Columnist."

[@70AD-user45]

The looney left wokes here in the UK has called him far worse than a Royals Watcher. He must be doing something right if the looney left hate him.

[@carmenfoster6912]

@@bartsanders1553 indeed

[@bartsanders1553]

@@carmenfoster6912 Well, we could, but do we really want to be?😂

[@Semper_Iratus]

Time well spent.

[@shingitai5882]

I wish Dr Starkey would agree to doing another tv series, we need something else than all the rubbish they call entertainment today. I miss the quality of the programs we used to get when we only had three channels.

[@DS9TREK]

You make it sound like he has a choice. The BBC and Channel Four won't work with him, he's still cancelled in their eyes.

[@tatata1543]

TV channels won’t touch him, why do you think he’s hitting punters up on Patreon for KZbin videos?

[@shingitai5882]

@@tatata1543 I heard that Dr Starkey was very rude to the program makers during filming, and that it got so bad that people were refusing to work with him again. I was just simply expressing a personal desire to see something of the quality of his material or for that matter interesting real characters that we don’t seem to get anymore on mainstream television.

[@tatata1543]

He was binned (and ejected from his university) because he is a racist.

[@mariadange06]

Superb although the time restraints shouldn't be so rigid for such an important subject.

[@DS9TREK]

It was an event with more than one speaker.

[@mariadange06]

@@DS9TREK Let's hope David does a podcast on the subject as it's such an important subject with King C watering down his oath to the British people.

[@westminsterwatcher5152]

Indeed!

[@SunofYork]

I have lived in the US for 20 years, and there are few Americans who know that England is not an ABSOLUTE MONARCHY

[@headshot6959]

Most people who think England is not a republic don't understand what the word 'Monarch' means.

[@foundationofBritain]

Monarch: One who reigns over a state or territory, usually for life and by hereditary right, especially. Republic: A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them. The product of synthesis between them is a... Crowned Republic.

[@headshot6959]

@@foundationofBritain Nice of you to step forward.

[@FizuliAbilov]

A ot B selection vs A or B or C

[@ladyhonor822]

GOD BLESS 💘 PHILADELPHIA USA🇺🇲☦️🫀🫁🏥🕊️

[@tjcassidy2694]

And ... ?

[@kinorspielmann4649]

Such a pity Dr Starkers crossed a red line by referring to those damn so and sos, and becoming persona non grata. He had the makings of a decent human being... not an emotionally infantile, cantankerous, abusive outsider.

[@clangerbasher]

We are living in an oligarchy.

[@bartsanders1553]

Most states slip into oligarchy if they don't start there. I prefer the term Plutocracy.

[@clangerbasher]

@@bartsanders1553 Yep. I can go for that. As the song goes.

[@markbowden7238]

Fascist totalitarian kleptocracy

[@gaildurward7757]

"Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near." Isaiah 55:6 KJV Seek Christ Jesus.

[@VaughanMcCue]

You did not get permission from the all-powerful FS Monster to spoil this video with that pathetic mumbo-jumbo. Judges 3:22 Like your unnecessary crap, the turd flowed out of King Eglon's gut. I love the bible hopscotch game.

[@josephturner7569]

Nonsense. Read Plato's Cave.

[@kimberlyperrotis8962]

Despite all of Charles III feel-good “inclusivity” and “political correctness”, he wrote the most Divine Right coronation oath since Charles I. I kept waiting for him to mention Parliament, reigning under the law, by the consent of the people, etc., in vain. He’s trying to push back to “the will of the king has the force of law”, shame on him. I was very open-minded and determined to give him a fair chance, and he blew it, utterly. What a fantasist he is.

[@homeone4054]

His buddy Klaus doesn't like the power of Parliament

[@rabby-u]

Challenging orotory!

[@mountbatten2222]

Dr. Starkey should know, as the educated man he is, that the UK is a heredity, constitutional Monarchy ! Living in a Republic for six decades myself I will assure him, that there are big differences !

[@meredithisme3752]

🇦🇺 i never thought I would support getting rid of the monarchy but with Charlie and William and the hypocrisy I'm there

[@stevewatson6839]

Not paying attention were you? We get a bad king, we change them out. Mind, the age -old constitution Dr. Starkey was refering to has been running on fumes pretty much from the Hanoverian accession and the invention of the Prime Minister and the Cabinet to deal with kings at first with no English, then bonkers, and then going into mourning for forty odd years. We have had no monarch worhty of the name since Victoria. The whole thing desperately needs reworking with a king who actually kings. I only have to look over the water, either west or south, to see all the other options are bollocks.

[@mikemines2931]

England is totally screwed.

[@robertcarrolan7478]

I wonder if David Starkey realizes how contradictory his telling of British history actually is. I'm the proud owner of his complete Monarchy series and this idea of England being some kind of Royal Republic is an absurdity. If we are using the Parliamentary Commonwealth of the 17th century as some kind of watermark for this myth. I would remind you that Parliament went out of it's way in the end to make Oliver Cromwell a King. And when he refused the Kingship his office of Lord Protector was elevated to that of Prince Regent. David starkey once famously asked his tutor Elton "When did Thomas Cromwell tell Henry 8th he had been made redundant" Equally I would ask David When did William Cecil tell Elizabeth 1st she ruled a Republic? Answers on a postcard.

[@Horizon344]

No it's not, it's a Constitutional Monarchy.

[@davidpnewton]

You utterly fail to understand that entire point of the talk. You see the two are not mutually exclusive. It is a constitutional republican monarchy. That fully expands the name of the form of government. Constitutionally governed. Yes. Monarchy. Yes. Republican form of government. Yes.

[@Horizon344]

@@davidpnewton Illogical, a-historical nonsense.

[@josephturner7569]

The Monarch is an heriditary non political Head of State. The country is managed by a non elected government. Laws are decided by elected representatives. If you don't like the concept of a non elected, who has the same function as an English Mayor, head of state, why do you accept a non elected Prime Minister who is very political?

[@josephturner7569]

Fool.

[@elgee6202]

You don't really don't get it. "Crowned republic" means a republic in all but name, i.e. a constitutional monarchy. Monarchies that have zero political power within a democracy are known as crowned republics. The monarchy is symbolic.

[@victorydaydeepstate]

England has gone woke and lost its humanity.

[@jameswebb4593]

It isn't the people , only the social elite . Therefore all is not lost , the rising will come.

[@Psychiatrick]

@ghostsoflandslidelyndon764 Maybe when you read the 1 page King John's concession to pope INNOCENT III you will find England, Ireland and the U. S. are Theocracies and pope (inc) of Edom in the role of God.

[@suzanneja710]

Lost it’s soul

[@pearlnicol2443]

A crowned republic? Where does oligarchy, even tyranny, fit in there? Where is representative government? Where is democratic control over the political cartel that runs the country? Where, or how, can ordinary people make power accountable?

[@christianamary1540]

Abolish the monarchy

[@khankrum1]

" Crowned Republic"??? Starkey what bloody nonsense! Monarchy, Power devolved from the crown! Republic, Power evolved from the people! RES PUBLIUS.

[@thejoin4687]

Power from the people (well, the oligarchs at least) explains the Magna Carta, English Civil War, the Bill of Rights, and the Hanovers.

[@josephturner7569]

What power does the monarch have? Power, ie, law comes from the people via their elected representatives. Are you a monochromatist? England etc has always been 'colourful'. Definitions are flexible. But the rule of the people has been the foundation since the restoration.

[@Psychiatrick]

King John's Concession to Pope (inc) of 1213 THEOCRACY ... e pluribus funk ...

[@davidblank3297]

I love David Starkey,, but when he gets all political on GB news,, I feel sad for him,, sadly embarrassing