The shame of living in a monarchy

People have a variety of opinions of Nicolas Sarkozy, and I am not one of his supporters. The fuzz in the media about his wedding with Carla Bruní were stupid and annoying, but if you don't like Sarkozy, his marriage is hardly your business. If you live in Sweden, things are more complicated.

The thing is that up here we live with an antiquated institution called monarchy. Our