Because this week's show is sort of about queens - it's going to be full of songs with titles like "Queen Of _______" which yes means I'm not playing Bowie's "Queen Bitch" - I started looking around to see how many queens were still around, in charge of places.
& there are a lot of queens still around, although they're not really the rulers, just the wives of monarchs. Nope, there's only two queens who are in charge themselves: the Queen of England, Elizabeth II, & the
Queen of Denmark, Margrethe II. Technically, of course, they're not monarchs in the way their predecessors had been.
If I seem disappointed, it's because I am. I was going to make my first Twitter poll in ages & ask people to pick a favorite queen. But there are only two! & I don't want to have to go find out, you know, if the King of Sweden has a Queen or whatever.
Look, I know that monarchies have been traditionally one of the best places to find patriarchy, but I thought in the 21st century we'd have more queens out there. Nope!
That's the last time I look for progress in useless, anachronistic institutions!
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