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Celebrate while you can - the Windsors will be history soon

By Peter Hitchens

PUBLISHED: 02:00, 28 July 2013 | UPDATED: 09:01, 28 July 2013

Why does everyone assume that the royal baby born last week will one day become King? It seems most unlikely to me that the British Monarchy will last that long.

I am a keen monarchist myself and am sorry that an institution I love and revere is dying. But there is no point in pretending things are better than they are.

What actually holds it up? All the major parties long ago drove the hereditary nobles from the House of Lords. They implicitly accepted that inheritance didn�t entitle anyone to any office. It is only a matter of time before that logic takes its final step.

Just because the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, pictured outside the Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital, have given birth to a baby prince, it doesn't mean he will one day become king, writes Peter Hitchens

Nobody but me stands up for inheritance � though there�d be no private property or liberty without it � or challenges the idea that the rigged, corrupt and closed system we humorously call �democracy� is the best possible way to choose our rulers.

Hardly anyone believes in the Christian God any more � though a growing number believe in Allah � so that means they also cannot believe the Monarch is divinely chosen.

We all know that the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats are crammed with republicans who are waiting for the chance to get rid of the Crown. They circle round the royal finances in the hope of working up a public demand to impoverish and humiliate the Monarch.
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The Tories, who pretend to be monarchists, would cheerfully guillotine the Queen or Prince Charles if they thought it would help them stay in office. They prove each week that there is nothing they won�t swallow, with this aim in mind.

As for the Commonwealth, it is mostly made up of republics, and its remaining monarchies feel � understandably, if wrongly � that they cannot really be grown-up nations until they have their own heads of state.

All this will become much more urgent when a new reign begins. Having narrowly escaped the fury of the Diana-worshipping mob in 1997, our present Queen has won an exalted status as the nation�s favourite grandma. Yet even she has to humiliate herself from time to time to seek the favour of the masses, as she did in the Olympics opening ceremony.

But this popularity is personal to her and will not pass to her successors. It flows from the fickle emotions of the mob. The same mob is quite capable of turning on a future King. I suspect it will do so. The generations who were brought up to revere the Royal Family, in the dear domestic days of George V and his stamp collection, or of George VI�s tours of the Blitzed ruins of London, are fast departing from among us.

Nowadays royal personages employ spin doctors and hope to win public affection by following fashion and courting popularity. They cannot be blamed for doing so � if they did not they would probably have been forced from the throne before now.

But those who ride that tiger always end up inside it in the end.

In my view it is Camilla who will bring down the monarchy, Charles is a fool to think the British people will accept a second rate adulterer and bit on the side as their Queen because Charlie boy wants to make her one, END OF THE BRITISH MONARCHY, I dont think they have 10 years left.