Citizen Windsor

We heartily extend congratulations and good wishes to William and Kate on the birth of their son, heir to a throne on which we pray he’ll never sit.

As Thomas Jefferson wrote, “The mass of Mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them.” Hereditary monarchy and nobility is an abomination in the modern world.

We Americans got rid of kings, queens, princes, dukes, earls, counts, lords, and all those other noxious vestiges of feudalism in 1776, and it’s long past time the Brits did likewise.

True, today’s royal family is little more than a tourist attraction.

As such, its members should be confined in a museum where people can gawk at them and rejoice at humankind’s rising from subservience to their like. Save for any family members who will renounce their pretensions and take instead a far more honorable title:

Citizen.