Laura Clancy

Does the British monarchy still have a place in today's society? Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's exit cast light on institutional racism, Prince Andrew's alleged sexual abuse highlighted troubling attitudes towards gender and power, while the abolition of the monarchy in Barbados accentuated its relationship to colonialism. But what is the monarchy actually for? Does it benefit the UK, or...

In recent decades, the global wealth of the rich has soared, leaving huge chasms of wealth inequality. This book argues that we cannot discuss inequalities in Britain today without mentioning the monarchy. Running the Family Firm explores the postwar British monarchy to understand its economic, political, social, and cultural functions. Although the monarchy is usually positioned as a backward-looking, archaic...