Running the Family Firm
Running the Family Firm In recent decades, the global wealth of the rich has soared to leave huge chasms of wealth inequality. Running the Family Firm explores the postwar British monarchy in order…
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Running the Family Firm
In recent decades, the global wealth of the rich has soared to leave huge chasms of wealth inequality. Running the Family Firm explores the postwar British monarchy in order to understand its economic, political, social and cultural functions. This book argues that we cannot talk about inequalities in Britain today without talking about the monarchy.
This book frames the monarchy as the gold standard corporation: The Firm. Although the monarchy is usually positioned as a backward-looking, archaic institution and an irrelevant anachronism to corporate forms of wealth and power, the relationship between monarchy and capitalism is as old as capitalism itself. Using a set of case studies - the Queen, Prince Charles, Prince Harry, Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle - it contends that The Firm's power is disguised through careful stage management of media representations of the royal