OPINION:
With our country’s 250th birthday celebration upon us, I am reminded of how much I really detest British royalty. I don’t mean the family members, but the concept that one person’s blood is somehow superior to another’s by virtue of the family into which they were born.
Looking through my college genetics textbook, I had a hard time finding anything on exactly how royal families have better DNA than everyone else.
For a country with such a history of scientific accomplishment, how England can embrace royalty (other than for the tourism benefits) is beyond me.
My parents taught me through my years growing up on a small Iowa farm that wealth is earned by hard work, smart planning and self-discipline. There was nothing about the value of collecting riches by throwing dinner parties and waving at people.
We are a country built by grit, determination and rugged individualism. None of these comes to mind when I think of royal families throughout British history.
My favorite scene in the Netflix series “The Crown” is the one when it finally dawns on Princess Elizabeth that her level of education was so poor that she has to ask her mother for a tutor so she has something to talk about with dinner guests other than dog breeding. The Queen Mother argued back that the only things Elizabeth really needed to know were her royal family duties.
Part of my problem with royalty may also have something to do with having ancestors who fought and died in the Revolutionary War and in the Battle of Culloden.
BEN FURLEIGH
Georgetown, Kentucky
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