I am a conservative and admittedly long past the age of maturity where I would be competing for floor space with these dudes but there is something decidedly wrong with carrying the title “prince” here in the United States; yet, nevertheless, a glossy ad-on fashion picture magazine of the New York Post has a spread on “The Fresh Princes of NY”. This challenges my ethics because never being introduced to any of these guys would I address them by their royal title. The notion of breaking ranks and asking Prince Amedeo to shoot a game of 8-Ball just seems ludicrous. What is problematic, after witnessing a U.S. President almost break his back bowing to the Mikado of Japan and bend and kiss the ring of a Saudi Arabian King, the notion of subterfuge and servitude is the plausible reaction of many Americans when confronted by royalty. It is one thing for a prince to visit this country, pass through Customs and register at a hotel using his royal nominar, it is all together different coming here, signing a lease and staying awhile while pulling rank in public using the term “Prince”.
These dudes (not dukes) are here because the places they supposedly represent don’t offer the stuff this country offers. Let’s begin with “Prince Demitri of Yugoslavia” (aka: Jimmy the Yugo) who at 52, for reasons personal to his own mystery, still has not found Miss, Ms, or Mrs. Ex Right. His bio says he swapped living in Versailles (green lawns of the Royal Palace of France) for a two bedroom flat in Sutton Place. Being a socialist bent newspaper the New York Times claims Dimmie has “noble forebears” whose photographs and painting surround his posh eastside digs. As a contribution to our well being he vends “one-of-a-kind jewels” at a salon on 57th Street, “Stop the train – Strike-up the band” we gotta winner. Since the communist dictator Tito dissolved all royal claims I didn’t think Yugoslavia still had guys cruising the night spots calling themselves “Prince”; plus, with bombed out Kosovo as part of Yugoslavia would it not be a betterment that that country profit by having some one-of-a-kind jewels.
This dude can’t lose; he is Prince Andrea Casiraghi of Monaco. This young spark is second in line to Monte’ Carlo where if you don’t know baccarat you’ll never get out alive. For our good fortune he is “one of the World’s Most Beautiful People” dating a Columbian beer heiress while skateboarding around Soho-Tribeca. Next, this one won’t be delivering pizza on his bike soon, is Prince Lorenzo of Italy a descendent to Princess Paulina d’Bonaparte’; ergo, this guy can dress up like Napoleon while really filling in the part. Getting back to the Balkans, that beautiful area of perpetual bloodshed, there resides among us here Prince Peter of Serbia whose forebears include Prinze Ferdinaud who being assassinated in Sarajevo started World War One. Just in case he has to flee to better groundings he also speaks Spanish and French but back in Belgrade has to use his hand signs to order a beer. My favorite member of the cast was really born with a silver spoon in his mouth; known around town as “Two Spoons” it is Prince Phillippos of Greece and Denmark who puts his time in refusing to don a NY Giants jersey while he betters his preference for English football as he tools around town hooking onto starlets attending film screenings. But, nevertheless, here in “Thertie-Terd an Terd Nev Yawk Cittie” I have got to check my spell-check function improved because there is Prince Amedeo Marie (don’t call me “Mary”) Joseph Carl Pierre Phillippe Paola (like “Payola”) Marcus d’Aviano et d’Este en Belgique who according to the profile is into marathon running which with a name like that I would be running too.
Okay, I admit it, I’m jealous, I too want a risk free gilded existence and I do wish these fellas all the best wherever they may be; but, still, my concern is the taint of monarchy on my beloved country. There exists here, perhaps it‘s a holdover from our earlier colonial history, an element in our general population that wants to kneel before superiors as in royalty. Just look at the Kennedy phenomenon, whenever some hack journalist needs quick cash he/she just collects all the other books for a cut and paste job and re-writes another tome excusing Chappaquiddick. My concern is that when the media types get fed up with the same-ole-same-ole leftish tripe they will turn to peddling wishful thinking luring gullible people to follow them to Camelot. Conservatives must resist this temptation because I firmly believe Marxists and Royalists sleep in the same bed with the same medieval feudalistic objectives.
James, Marxists and Royalists want to be Elites and enjoy a privileged life while they live off the labor of others. What else can Elites do?
We seem to have a whole crew of them in DC.
U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 9:
They, the press, can continue calling these guys “Prince So-and-So”, but their title of nobility means absolutely jack squat in America.
I did play the role of PRINCESS, when I was 4 years old , at an orphanage, where my older sisters and I where place as we became orphans then: this was a huge convent administered by NONNES,
and that day was a CATHOLIC big event then, they dress me me up like a cinderella movie,
and I was in a poneys’s carriage going on the road surrounded by crowds of people,
that ,was enough to built my ego, for all my life, a nice feeling to feel that you are a real princess,
when you go looking for a job in a chic restaurant at 16, and being refuse because of no experience
in that kind of jobs,
My reaction to any adulation to any “royalty” types here in this country, even during the frenzy over Chuck and Di’s wedding, is this” “Geez, what the devil did we fight a revolution for, anyway?” My family fought and suffered in the Revolution, the War of 1812, and very likely, the English Civil War, too (those members of the family that stayed behind in “Jolly Old”, anyway…)
Royalty? Got no use for ’em at all…
SKOOKUM refers to it and some notable scholar needs to examine the bedroom relationship between the marxist and the royalist. The Age of Enlightenment deminished royalty in Europe and excluded it here in the americas yet the demand, by some, to retain feudelism and hold captive and control the lives of others evolved into marxism. Never – Never – Never to appear hostile to Jewry or Israel but not since Biblical Roman times has there been Jewish royalty. Some Jews hopped the wall and married into royal families but those exceptions are most exceptional and conversion to Catholic or Protestant essental. There is a case among people quired about leadership and one response, never to be forgotten, “benevolent dictatorship” which many Americans believe, albeit oxymoronic, is hopey-changey feasible.
The Benevolent Dictator Syndrome: I am weak and stupid, please take care of me and fill my gas tank, stock my refrigerator, and pay my mortgage; I will promise to love you and treat you as liege and Lord of the manor. This is how the machine elected our last president. Unfortunately for them, he is a witless, lazy, Narcissist and doesn’t have a clue of how to deliver the goods or promote himself after the chrome becomes blemished, his misfortune, our opportunity!
This symbiotic relationship between Elite and fawning sycophants is necessary for the Elite Marxist or the Royalist to assume power; after initial success, he must consolidate power and establish authoritarian control while the sycophants are still fawning. In this country he has impressed the weaklings and the simpletons, there is no where to go for the typical power climbing and grasping Elite looking to assume permanent power and control. Yet he and his propaganda bureaus have followed the plan for acquisition of power well; in some place other than America, he might have pulled it off. We might have a large population of cerebrally challenged, but we have people who are used to seeing decisive leaders in government, the military, and business; Obama hasn’t exhibited leadership in any of the important fields, especially foreign relations.
I do think the PRESIDENT as a person not as a president bowed to royaltys like he did, forgetting who he was sworned in to represent, and most likely is showing his followers to bow to them also, and it show that he and what he project to the people will always be there, that is the feeling of being
lower than those kings and queens even as he represent the superpower of AMERICA, that
repeated gesture was the first sign of his desire agenda to humble and destroy
THE PRIDE OF AMERICA , AND CONTINIUE ON AFTER WITH POLICY OF DEFEATING
THE COUNTRY, I AM CONFIDENT THAT THE CONSERVATIVES ELECTED WILL BEGIN TO WORK TO REPAIR THE AWSOME DAMMAGE DONE ON ALL FRONTS
No intention to be overly pedantic but I have written a screenplay based on the Memoirs of General Ulysses S. Grant, Grant was the first President to go around the world where he and Julia, his wife, met Queen Victoria, Tsar Alexander, Otto vonBismark, then Egypt, India. In Japan, he smiled, nodded, winked and shook the hand of the Ichi Makado. Custom protocol demanded that no one less noble ever to touch the Emperor of Nippon. The General stood erect at military attention during the ceremony.