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Hello and welcome to another edition of Did You Read The Times Opinion

Podcast. My name is Tim Montgomery, and this week I'm joined by Times

columnist Matthew Paris and David Erronovich and our parliamentary sketch writer

Anne Trennerman.

Spain's King Juan Carlos was respected in the 1980s for his brave refusal to support a coup against democracy.

That respect has been squandered and hence in part the abdication. But I wonder if we British are being a bit

smug pointing this out. The fading of British Republicanism in recent decades

has been hugely dependent on the growing personal popularity of our particular

Queen. Our real monarchists are probably a minority. Most of us are firstly Elizabethists.

Woe betide our monarchy if we ever really got a stinker on the throne.

The Newark by election on Thursday is a genuinely interesting contest. My contention and polls seem

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