Giveaway Winner!

The winner of the giveaway of Peter Conradi's new book, The Great Survivors: How Monarchy Made It into the Twenty-First Century, has been chosen!  After plugging the names of each person who left a comment (only those comments speculating on why monarchies have survived) into a spreadsheet and then using a random number generator, the comment which won was made by Eileen Daub!  Eileen left the following thoughts on the survival of monarchy:

People are fascinated with monarchies because they are an escape. They are not worrying about jobs and bills and our modern lives but take us back to when fairy tales existed and princes saved the princess from dragons. Regardless of it is a 21st century Prince wedding his Princess or a strong 16th century Queen defending her homeland, it is a world of glamour and chivalry that does not exist to most of us anymore.

Congratulations, Eileen!  Please send me an e-mail so that we can coordinate the delivery of your free copy of the book!

Thanks so much to all who entered and left such thoughtful and interesting comments on monarchy -- I had a wonderful time reading each and every one of them!