By Dr Colin Alexander

The British Royal Family may claim to be a public institution headed by people claiming to be charitable public servants.

In reality though, they are a private family, with private interests and no official public responsibility. Instead, their claim to public service represents a key part of the propaganda strategy that underpins their power and influence.

Dr Laura Clancy has described the Royal Family as “the firm”. This is in reference to the cabal-like business arrangements and obscure network of associates that sits behind their public façade.

It is also part of her framing of them as a family in name and in human biology, but that the structure and relational bonds appear far removed from what you or I would recognise in our own extended families.

Ultimately, as was the conclusion drawn by Prince Harry in his interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2021, this is a highly dysfunctional world to grow up in, where the love, support, acceptance and forgiveness that happens in most families is largely absent.

Harry’s........

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