![]() They mobilized and created societies truly willing to “tax the rich.” This new corporate “royalty” made its millions relentlessly squeezing average people, and by the 1940s - on both sides of the Atlantic - the “subjects” of these kingpins had had enough. Now UK royals, of course, have always been wealthy, but their relative wealth status changed over time as the transition from feudal times to modern industrial capitalism left royalty looking distinctly up to the wealthiest of their subjects. But something else unexpected played out in that long interim. And poor Charles, for his part, ended up having to wait for his throne far longer than anyone in 1948 likely ever imagined. ![]() None of us U.S.-born sons of ’48, as life turned out, ever made it into the White House. Many of those moms with newborn sons - mine included - would spend the next decade or so only half-jokingly assuring one and all that their little one would no doubt be sitting in the White House just about the same time little Charley made it to his throne. New first-time moms in the USA basked in this royal motherhood glow. But America’s media spotlight didn’t go whole-hog on babies until that November, the month that saw the young Queen Elizabeth give birth to her first, the British empire’s future king. By November 1948, the postwar “Baby Boom” in the United States had been roaring along for nearly three years.
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