An overload of Royal news has overshadowed a small step for the monarchy and a huge reminder of why it is so important to use your vote come the General Election.
In a recent speech as president of the Women of the World festival, Queen Camilla told guests including Dame Helen Mirren, Doreen Lawrence and Dame Kelly Holmes, that she would like to begin “with a show and tell”. She produced two stones which had been hurled at the windows of Buckingham Palace in May 1914, 14 years before women in England, Wales and Scotland received the full right to vote on the same terms as men.
My son is less keen; he can’t see the point, he says, of swapping one lot of politicians for another, but I’m doggedly working on him. It is easy to see why - given the political situation of the last decade or so, where those in power have behaved in so many unaccountable ways – why so many young people find the idea of voting so unappealing.
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