More support is needed for Monarchies around the world as the younger generations believes that it has no influence upon their lives.
16 September.
BY: Lindokuhle Mlombo, Larissa Kuiper and Jack Wilson.
Amalienborg Palace. The Denmark Royal Palace in Copenhagen. Image By: Lindokuhle Mlombo.
Monarchies seem to be losing supports all around the world due the impacts and lack of support it has shown for its people. For example, in the United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand.
While the monarchy of Denmark is in preparation for His Royal Highness Prince Christians 18th Birthday Celebration, the elderly and young Danes seems to have different views about the monarchy.
Monarchies seem to be losing supports all around the world due the impacts and lack of support it has shown for its people. For example, in the United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand.
2014 research conducted as a poll indicated that 82 percent of Danish people were in favour of the monarchy compared to when Queen Margrethe started in 1972.Indicating the growth of the Danish Monarchy.
The research also indicated that people are in support of the Queen but not the monarchy itself. Kjeld Christiansen, a 77-year-old Danish man who claims to have attended the same university with the Queen and has lived in Denmark all his life seems to think highly of the Queen.
“The Queen was the first Royal person in our country to be well educated in being a Queen and managing the country”, said Christiansen. This shows that the elderly people of Denmark support the monarchy and are in Favour of the Queen. They believe that the monarchy’s success is owed to the Queen.
They perceive having a monarchy as beneficials to the country and its different managerial systems. However, it comes as no surprise that young people bag to differ as they feel no sense of connection to the monarchy and see no special need for it. Aberte Devantier and Cornelia Boehm Wolke who are young people from Denmark claim that they hardly notice the effects of having a monarchy in Denmark and that as young people, to them the Royals are seen as public figures not officials of the country.
“They do not make that much of an impression for us, we only notice them on the news and special occasions since we are young and hardly follow the monarchy” said Aberte. This serves as evidence that in the future monarchies may be abolished or operated differently as the present generations find it irrelevant in the contemporary world.
Most of them believe in democracy and want to have the chance to have an opinion on governing rules and laws. Cornelia also mentioned that the elderly people support the monarchy more that the youth as they can relate more to the Queen, while the youth simply interact through social media and are hardly or never impacted by the monarch’s political influence.
This indicates the shift of political influence in monarchies between the elderly people and the younger generation. It also leaves monarchies with responsibilities of changing and being relatable to the younger generation or the tough decision of potentially having monarchies abolished.
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