That is exactly what people want to know about their leaders. And in this day
and age of 24/7 media coverage, we are increasingly aware it is not always the
obvious candidates, those whose job it is to represent the people.
Were Tony Blair and his successor as British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown,
political soul mates?
Alternatively, looking towards the royal households, is Crown Prince Alois closer to his father, the reigning
Prince of Liechtenstein, than the Prince of Wales is to his mother, Elizabeth
II? And would the abdication of December 1936 have occurred had King Edward VIII had been
closer to his heir presumptive, his brother Prince Albert, Duke of York?
There
are
three categories we should examine in our attempt to discover where the
real power lies: spouses, friends, and religious leaders.
In the context of the ongoing, increasingly heated debate in the American Democratic
party’s race for the presidency, I thought I’d offer readers of The Royalist
some examples of all three with a focus on the last - the woman of faith
and the man of the cloth.
