The Good a King Can Do

Even in a country as fractious as Afghanistan.  From 2007:

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan’s former King Mohammad Zahir Shah, whose 40-year reign coincided with one of the most peaceful periods in the country’s history, died on Monday aged 92.

President Hamid Karzai declared three days of mourning and ordered flags to be flown at half mast for the man heralded as “father of the nation” after he returned from 29 years of exile in 2002 to live out his last years as an ordinary citizen.

“With paramount grief, I would like to inform my countrymen that ... Mohammad Zahir Shah has bid farewell to this mortal world,” Karzai told reporters at the presidential palace.

The former king died in his bed after months of illness.

Karzai described Zahir Shah as the founder of Afghan democracy and a symbol of national unity.

Zahir Shah ruled Afghanistan from 1933 until he was deposed by his cousin in 1973. Since then Afghanistan has seen coups, wars and invasions that have cost millions of lives.

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--https://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghan-king-idUSSP16177420070723, via https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/blog/the-abcs-of-afghanistan/

Because of the unifying and calming effects of kings, the Elite do everything they can to undermine and discredit them:

https://www.takimag.com/article/battle-royal/, via https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/08/taki-theodoracopulos/battle-royal/

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!