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Has Monarchy Had its Day?

Shedding past light on recent royal scandal, four historians consider the future of an ancient institution.

History Today | Published in History Today Volume 70 Issue 1 January 2020

A satire on the coronation of Napoleon: 'The Imperial Coronation', Thomas Rowlandson, 1804. Metropolitan Museum of Art.

With everything changing, what has stayed the same?

Kate Maltby, critic, columnist and final year PhD student in the English Department at University College London.

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