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> regular citizen

Almost, but not quite. She had royal blood on both sides of her father's family:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noor_Inayat_Khan

Not that this takes away anything from what you wrote, I just happened to be in one of my pedantic moods :)

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royal blood is one of them ideas even worse than the notion of race

Yeah...Declare one person special by birth, and suddenly everyone remotely related claims they're elite too, spreading hierarchy through society...:-)

I recognize only one sovereign:...The Burger King

My heart aches for you. As does, no doubt, your stomach.

We all serve someone...I just prefer mine flame-grilled...

Long may he reign

I used "royal blood" to mean that she was in some sense privileged -- nothing more.

Bad turn of phrase, I guess.

Is classism not more real than race?

I mean, classism is about as real as racism but I don't know why one would ask about classism vs race. Class is about as not real as race; they're both things that people made up to justify their disrespectful behavior towards others.

In what way is race not real? Race is determined by DNA.

race as an idea is a societywide royalty of blood, which is why its so widespread in failed democracies with despots."We are all zhar/oligarch/king" and those not from here are the serfs.its the very same idea just bastardized.

Some of it being the blood of Tippu Sultan, who died fighting against the British to protect the independence of Mysore (and whose rocket technology the British stole and led to the verse in "The Star-Spangled Banner" about "the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air"). If anyone had any reason not to assist the British Empire, it was her.

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