Quote:Some time back, I wrote the article “Royals, Reich or Wrong,” in which I speculated that we are watching the global re-emergence of the royal classes. Feeling clever, I sent a link to Joseph Farrell, who immediately fired back that he’d been tracking the same concept for some time, and we subsequently recorded our discussion titled, “Princes, Persons & Power”.

Most recently, Dr. Farrell posted one of his “News & Views” segments speculating on the idea that the Louvre heist of France’s crown jewels may have been initiated by Louis Alphonse de Bourbon, known by the Légitimistes as Louis XX. Dr. Farrell launches from an article in which Louis XX promulgates the idea that he’s “ready” to assume the throne of France, just days before the heist.

In my book Paper Golem, I explored the very long history of incorporation and corporate personhood. A key concept in the development of “corporations” was the idea that the king embodied the collective lands and peoples under his rule as a single entity. To put it succinctly, when the king sneezes, the country catches a cold.

Starting in the 17th century, philosophers such as John Locke, Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Rousseau began arguing that legitimate government derived from reason, consent, and natural rights, not from God’s favor or noble blood. England’s Civil War (1642–1651) and the execution of Charles I (1649) marked the first modern overthrow of a monarch in Europe, though Oliver Cromwell’s Commonwealth only lasted until the Restoration in 1660.

The Bavarian Illuminati was a short-lived, clandestine society founded by Adam Weishaupt, a law professor at Ingolstadt (see Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein). Its goal was to oppose superstition, clerical influence, and tyranny — aims that certainly aligned with Enlightenment ideals. Members called themselves Perfectibilists or Illuminati because they sought to bring “light” (reason) to society. The group infiltrated Masonic lodges and advocated for rational governance, education reform, and secularism.

It’s easy to see why the Illuminati and Masons have been demonized for centuries. Monarchs ruled by divine right, which was maintained by religious authority—either the Vatican or the Church of England. This form of governance was anathema to Enlightenment ideals, both in all power being collectively inherited by the monarch, and in religious sanctioning of that power.

The moment of pure rebellion came with the American Revolution and establishment of a republic. Though the Republic was still sanctioned by God, it wasn’t under the auspices of any particular brand of religion, but rather by the direct “Hand of God”—Annuit Coeptis. This moment shook the Earth, since individuals (not the collective) were empowered and sovereign, and education—particularly science and math—were the foundation of Reason.

From that point on, monarchies began falling one by one: the French Revolution, the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian and the Ottoman Empires, and ultimately the House of Romanov in Russia. World War I swept the remaining monarchies, leaving only constitutions and parliaments in their wake, even if the royal family survived as figureheads (England, Spain, Netherlands, Demark, etc.).

From these ashes rose the Corporate State. Rather than the collective body being an individual ruling by birthright, it was groups of “citizens” acting as single entities, with ownership distributed by shares sold to stockholders. Corporations acting as collective sovereign “persons” is the exact and actual definition of “fascism”—the many become one.

My thesis is that the royal families, who have survived for centuries if not millennia, are using corporations to reconstitute their kingdoms. Known variously as trusts, foundations, NGOs, or holding companies, buried deep in the ownership structure and funding mechanisms are royals slowly and methodically re-acquiring their realms as “legal entities”. By subsuming raw materials, production, and distribution, while at the same time controlling legislative, executive and judicial powers make these entities in effect monarchs, though currently in a disguised form.

What Dr. Farrell, his friend and I have noticed is a great many signs and portends that the royals are ready to reassert themselves. The restoration of palaces, the use of certain insignia, the revival of particular practices, and yes, the theft of crown jewels, all fit a pattern of resurrection.

The idea is that the royals never really went away. As a means of survival, they appeared to relinquish their thrones in favor of constitutions and parliaments, but in reality they were biding their time.

History teaches us that democracies rarely survive more than a couple of centuries, before descending into chaos and tyranny. The royals had only to wait in the shadows until the time was ripe to once again assume their hereditary positions of Divine power. They could hide behind corporate persons, slowly leaching national treasuries in the guise of “grants” and “aid packages,” amassing fantastic fortunes on the backs of taxpayers, just like the old days.

In the near future, we may very well see corporations literally take over entire nations, especially since the balance sheets of some of them far exceed the GDP of many nations. At that point, it’s a short step from Chairman of the Board to Divine Monarch.

Through careful investment and market positioning, a corporate entity could easily corral the power of AI and quantum computing to make its rule absolute—down to the molecule—thus embodying the old proverb, “In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”

In closing, we note the involvement of royals in “climate change” and “energy transition” movements. Not only are these scams sources of trillions in funding, they also position the royals at the top of the food chain controlling earth, fire, water, and air, along with their AI and quantum assets, which by the way consume vast amounts of power to operate.

Meantime, it’s a good bet Louis XX has regained the crown jewels. After all, it would be impossible to fence such items, but a royal could pay a group more than enough to pull off the heist. In any case, it’s probably a good time to brush up on your royal curtsy and kòu tóu.

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Perhaps the best cinematic metaphor for today’s topic is The Godfather: Part III (1990), Coppola’s epic conclusion to the saga of the Corleone family. Patriarch Michael is the titular king of his empire, seeking support from the Vatican to legitimize his reign, while also seeking to anoint his heir. It doesn’t get much better than this. Pair it off with Kubrick’s final masterwork, Eyes Wide Shut (1999), to see how modern royalty live in an Olympian realm far above us mere humans.