# Tweet by [@keefmoon](http://twitter.com/keefmoon) on 2019-10-13 17:24:20 > [!INFO] Archived from [original tweet](http://twitter.com/keefmoon/status/1183433297973694465) In reply to: [@keefmoon](http://twitter.com/keefmoon/status/1183432759454392321) @wgsaraband @nickeardleybbc I’d never thought of the monarchy as being draped in the “spoils of the empire” but that’s totally right! @wgsaraband you may have just turned me from a royalist into a republican.