[HN Gopher] How Queen Victoria's Matchmaking Helped Cause World ...
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       How Queen Victoria's Matchmaking Helped Cause World War I
        
       Author : thunderbong
       Score  : 4 points
       Date   : 2024-06-12 18:52 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | bell-cot wrote:
       | Meh. With how many match-making monarchs, and how many disastrous
       | wars there were in Europe from (say) 950 to 1950, it seems
       | trivial to argue that Queen Victoria was nothing special in this
       | regard.
       | 
       | Notice how very few non-ceremonial monarchs Europe has these
       | days.
       | 
       | And recall Churchill's famous quote about democratic government -
       | https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/quotes/the-worst-form... -
       | from just after WWII. When it was d*mned clear that WWI and WWII
       | had demoted the British Empire from being the world's obvious
       | sole superpower...to being a poor, hungry little sidekick to the
       | USA. In a mere 1/3 of a century, starting more than a decade
       | after Victoria's death.
        
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