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title: Optimistic and forward-looking and Keeps it Together
description: "\"optimistic and forward-looking and keeps it together.\"  That's how Melanie Phillips characterises constitutional monarchy talking to John Anderson AC."
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# [Optimistic and forward-looking and Keeps it Together](https://www.centreforoptimism.com/blog/monarchy)

 Written by [Victor Perton](https://www.centreforoptimism.com/blog/author/victor-perton) | May 26, 2023 8:02:06 AM

"**optimistic** and forward-looking and keeps it together."

That's how Melanie Phillips characterises constitutional monarchy in a conversation with John Anderson AC.

Melanie said, "The crucial point about the monarchy, in my view a constitutional monarchy is that it provides a point, a focal point of admiration, of stability, of identification, which helps bind the nation together and gives it a sense of itself that is optimistic and forward-looking and keeps it together."

Melanie said about the late Queen Elizabeth, "You wouldn't have dreamed of hearing her ever complain about anything. She was always **optimistic** and just got on with it."

What makes you optimistic?

 

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