You need a king to stop ‘tyrants’ like Trump, Fry tells America

Britain’s bestknown luvvie stephen Fry , who is a close friend of Prince Charles, is urging americans to have an unelected head of state.

in an article for a new York paper to mark today’s independence Day, he sympathises with his audience for having thrown off the ‘yoke of British oppression in 1776’ but suggests that they would be better off with a good oldfashioned monarchy.

‘Do you not agree that it would be a very healthy thing for presidents to make such a humble, supplicatory journey every week and be reminded that they serve a bigger idea than power, a nobler entity than a political party or a trending ideology?’ he asks.

‘america has an elected executive, but Britain has an elected executive and something else, too: a head of state who stands above the fray, personifying and representing our nation and its history.’

typically Fry smarms up to his american readership while doing the British down, claiming: ‘i am far from claiming that Britain is

anything other than a ridiculous country, nor am I denying that there are plenty of Britons who don’t buy into the drama of kingship.

‘ Rationally, a monarchy is an absurdity. Of course it is.

‘But we British are not rationalists. We are empiricists and seem always to have been. Looking at 10 Downing Street and the American White House now, I wonder which nation is constitutionally most in danger of allowing a tyrant to arise.’

Fry, 59, who lives in LA with his husband Elliott Spencer, 27, has been careful not to attack President Trump since he won the U.S. election. The former QI presenter used to be outspoken in his criticism of the tycoon and once attacked him for his ‘poisonously atrocious taste, false glamour, shallow grandeur [and] cynical vulgarity’.

And after a visit to one of his gaudy properties in 2009, Fry declared that he hoped ‘never to hear Trump’s name again’.

Fry was said to be desperate to emulate old comedy partner Hugh Laurie’s success in hospital drama House with a CBS sitcom he starred in called The Great Indoors.

However the series was cancelled after just one season.