I thought we lived in a republic…

3 November 2005, 1437 EST

I got this email from the powers-that-be at Georgetown yesterday:

As part of his official visit to the U.S., His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales will be attending a seminar on Faith and Social Responsibility at Georgetown with academic and faith leaders from across the nation on [xxx].

The seminar is unable to accommodate additional participants but members of the campus community interested in seeing the arrival and departure of His Royal Highness are welcome to do so in [xxx]. For his arrival please be in [xxx] no later than [xxx]. and for his departure please come no later than [xxx].

Given everything that’s happened to the House of ~~Saxe-Coburg-Gotha~~ Windsor in the last twenty-five years, I can’t help but wonder how many Americans still care to serve as props in a very short royal ritual.

If anyone reading this is at Georgetown today, please do let me know.

Filed as: Prince Charles

Dan Nexon

Daniel H. Nexon is a Professor at Georgetown University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service. His academic work focuses on international-relations theory, power politics, empires and hegemony, and international order. He has also written on the relationship between popular culture and world politics.

He has held fellowships at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation and at the Ohio State University's Mershon Center for International Studies. During 2009-2010 he worked in the U.S. Department of Defense as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow. He was the lead editor of International Studies Quarterly from 2014-2018.

He is the author of The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe: Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires, and International Change (Princeton University Press, 2009), which won the International Security Studies Section (ISSS) Best Book Award for 2010, and co-author of Exit from Hegemony: The Unraveling of the American Global Order (Oxford University Press, 2020). His articles have appeared in a lot of places. He is the founder of the The Duck of Minerva, and also blogs at Lawyers, Guns and Money.