Author: Kulthum el-Akram

Monarchy has been the understated fixture of the year. Yet its most relevant aspect has been its least understood – monarchy, when it is properly instituted, provides a divided society with the opportunity for renewal and revitalisation. Modern sensibilities would have us believe that contemporary democratic institutions are the natural way of the world, a world that began no earlier than the early 20th century. History however, began far earlier than 1919. Indeed, the 1919 shift from the great monarchies to modern democratic representative government was rather rapid and jarring – far too rapid and jarring to break the hold of…