As someone who studies kingship and the idea of rulers to my fellow scholars who also study this stuff: why this incessant and persistent twee woobification of kings and queens?

This is an honest question. I think that you can have a favourite ruler inasmuch as the one you find the most interesting. But I do not understand this attitude towards people of immense privilege whose social class was entirely arbitrary.

And based on perpetuating the false ideology that certain people have the right to rule, and the very real consequence of murder and war to achieve power.

Why this constant perspective of stanning queens? Eleanor of Aquitane would not be your friend or mine.

Honestly this seems not much different than modern monarchism and the conservative deference to monarchy.

And you could say this is a series of subtweets, but it’s from over a long period of observing this behaviour on here.