Cele|bitchy | Guardian: Prince William’s kingship plans indicate a British ‘bicycle monarchy’

Many years ago, even years before Prince Harry met Meghan, many of us longtime royal-watchers posited a theory that Prince William was an undercover small-r republican. The theory was that he would – however purposefully or inadvertently – end up burning the whole thing down because he didn’t actually give a sh-t about the monarchy. The Sussex situation actually changed that for a time. William’s courtiers and Tory handlers used his jealousy of Harry and Meghan to begin “preparing” him for his reign (of terror). All kinds of royal sources came out to say that William was newly keen on his kingship preparation as soon as Harry and Meghan became engaged. Which begged the question: why wasn’t he keen before then? In any case, eight years have passed, and William’s kingship will probably happe