I agree - say if a man of religion is having an affair, I would absolutely want to know. I am religious myself, a Buddhist, and I attend a temple regularly for meditation, instruction, and community. If I found out that our Abbot was anything less than exemplary in his morals, I would be both shocked and would leave the organisation.
And in the case of the monarch, who is the head of the established church, they make a big point of showing them as the head family in prayer. If all of this is just theatre and a ruse to make them appear pious and worthy of respect, then it exposes the sham it has become.
I have repeatedly said that we are trapping this family in a gilded cage and exposing them to far more scrutiny than other aristocrats who inhabit the same space. That in itself is cruel in the modern era where secrets are difficult to hide.
We do this because we the people want to believe in something more tangible than fairy tales in the sky. They serve both in loco parentis and in loco deus, pulling levers behind the scenes with great pomp and ceremony. But at the end of the day, they are no more and often, as we learn more about how they operate no less human than the rest of us. In fact, all too often, they fall short of the standards we expect.
Of course, historically much like the Pope their authority was believed to come directly from God Himself, granting them the divine right of kings. This divine right was used to justify absolute power, placing them above earthly laws and accountability, as if they ruled by Godâs own sanction.
Quite proud of loco deus - shows my latin O'level wasn't in vain !