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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the British monarchy. In the last two hundred and fifty years, we\\u2019ve beheaded one king, exiled another, hired a distant German-speaking dynasty to fill the monarch\\u2019s role, and then mocked and ignored them, suffered a mad man and then a lavish sensualist, threatened a young queen, and then, over a century ago, invented a pageantry which brought majesty to a monarchy which is now tilting at the twenty first century against many and mighty odds. How has the monarchy survived since the execution of Charles the First two hundred and fifty years ago and what relevance does it have in a devolved Britain?With Professor David Cannadine, Director of the Institute of Historical Research, London and former Lecturer in History and Fellow, Christ\\u2019s College, Cambridge; Bea Campbell, sociologist, journalist and author of Diana, Princess of Wales.