World: Getting the Right People

A Windsor intimate looks at royalty past, present and future

In keeping with tradition, people close to the royal family do not allow themselves to be identified when discussing its private affairs. Last week TIME's Frank Melville interviewed an intimate of three generations of the House of Windsor. Promised anonymity, he provided these insights:

A constitutional monarchy with highly trained, highly respectable and highly admirable people at the top is the best way to run a democracy. The moment you have any form of dictatorship of the right or left, such as Hitler's or...

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