Walter Bagehot, a 19th-century editor of the Economist, argued that people like to see a "family on the throne" because it "brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life".

It even misnames the founder of this newspaper as Walter Bagehot (it was James Wilson) and misspells the name of the current editor.

Walter Bagehot, an authority on bank runs, once wrote: “Every banker knows that if he has to prove that he is worthy of credit, however good may be his arguments, in fact his credit is gone.”