Here is an idea on the difference between the sexes.
Little girls dream of being princesses, but with boys it is the other way round, and princes just try to be little boys.
It is the Romance of Royalty that is the best reason to keep the Monarchy. Yet it is the least significant reason in terms of Constitutional change and the nature of our social structures and institutions. It is astonishing that it has survived into this modern age. Everything is changing fast. Some people do want to remake society in some idealised way, and certainly there are improvements that are long overdue, but there are aspects of human culture that will remain, like the nursery stories that all involve the dream of being a Princess or a Hero, the two archetypal childhood fantasies.
If there were no real Princesses, the aspiration would be lost. The chances are remote that from any generation some girl, otherwise 'ordinary', would be plucked from obscurity and become a Princess. However, it happens, and perhaps no less remote than the single sperm of the millions that are in each ejaculation, or the single seed that germinates from the entire tree full of fruit,
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