Royal Wedding
Socialist Press1981 1981-03-04Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 2 →
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It was a bumper week for the monarchists. Fascists, aristocrats, chauvinists and bigots also did well.
Their first cause to cheer came from the rising fortunes of King Juan Carlos of Spain:
From a comparatively unnoticed, apparently insignificant figurehead of a supposedly "democratised" fascist regime, he emerged as a central arbiter of whether or not the military coup should succeed.
After a mere seven hours of deliberations-weighing the odds each way-he plumped for the even more rickety foundations restoration of "democracy". than before.
In Britain, meanwhile, the final dope-tests, virginity tests, screening and degrading inquiries were being completed on Lady Diana Spencer before the announcement that Prince Charles is to marry her.
Raucous cheer The whole bourgeois establishment let loose a raucous cheer. The wedding is an ideal vehicle to further their varied objectives.
*It boosts the institution of the monarch-a handy fall-back for the British capitalist class in the event of a frontal challenge to its control of the state machinery.
*It boosts the