{"id":267405,"date":"2021-08-08T08:57:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T08:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=210788"},"modified":"2021-08-08T08:57:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T08:57:05","slug":"the-windsors-a-major-counter-revolutionary-backstop-for-bourgeois-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/08\/08\/the-windsors-a-major-counter-revolutionary-backstop-for-bourgeois-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"The Windsors: A Major Counter-Revolutionary Backstop For Bourgeois Britain\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The death of Elizabeth Windsor\u2019s husband Philip Mountbatten earlier this year prompted an establishment-led frenzy of monarchism across Britain, with wall-to-wall sycophantic TV and radio coverage and Covid public information boards replaced with Philip\u2019s portrait. The standard view of the British monarchy is that they are no more than symbolic figureheads lacking any real power; [&#8230;] \t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"woocommerce\">\n<div class=\"woocommerce-info wc-memberships-restriction-message wc-memberships-message wc-memberships-content-restricted-message\">\n\t\t\t\tTo read this article, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/my-account\/?wcm_redirect_to=post&#038;wcm_redirect_id=210788\">log in<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/subscribe\/\">or Subscribe.<\/a><br \/>\nIn order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies.\t\t    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/08\/the-windsors-a-major-counter-revolutionary-backstop-for-bourgeois-britain\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/08\/the-windsors-a-major-counter-revolutionary-backstop-for-bourgeois-britain\/\">The Windsors: A Major Counter-Revolutionary Backstop For Bourgeois Britain\u00a0<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/08\/the-windsors-a-major-counter-revolutionary-backstop-for-bourgeois-britain\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death of Elizabeth Windsor\u2019s husband Philip Mountbatten earlier this year prompted an establishment-led frenzy of monarchism across Britain, with wall-to-wall sycophantic TV and radio coverage and Covid public information boards replaced with Phili&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[228,230],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267405"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267689,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267405\/revisions\/267689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}