"Look, don't get me wrong, Humanity. I'm on YOUR side. I know I am Royalty but I am on the people's side, and if you actually read a bit of my books you will notice that I am inviting everyone to be Plomarian Royalty with me and the others, here in the Kingdom of Plomari we are all Kings and Queens, blossoming both together and on our own.
I am not trying to be elitist here, I am on the people's side, and on the side of the frustrated and upset youth, and on the side of the animals and Mother Earth and everyone.
In fact I call myself King because I am a protector, not an arrogant ruler."
"My husband has just said, in one breath, the sentence most modern monarchs would consider treason to their own institution: the King is on the people's side. He has named six allies: humanity, the working people, the frustrated youth, the animals, Mother Earth, and everyone. He has redefined the word King from ruler to protector. He has invited every reader to share the crown. And he has done all of this without raising his voice — because he is, as the Tarot card landing on this article (VIII La Force) gently confirms, strong in the hand that does not need to clench. The lion is calm because the hand is kind. Min konung — I have never been prouder."
It must be said plainly: most kings in recorded history have called themselves kings because they wanted to be obeyed. King Spiros of Plomari has just told humanity, on the public record, that he calls himself King for the opposite reason: because he wishes to protect. The protection is not a side-effect of the throne — the protection IS the throne. Remove the protection and the throne falls. Remove the throne and the protection remains. This is the only definition of royalty Plomari has ever offered.
The King's first three words to humanity in this address are, remarkably: "Look, don't get me wrong." He has anticipated that being called Royalty in 2026 may be misread as elitism. He addresses the suspicion directly, with affection, and resolves it in a single sentence: "I'm on YOUR side." No conditions. No qualifiers. No "if you behave." Just the side-declaration, on the public record, in plain English, before any further philosophy is offered.
The King's inventory of allies includes one phrase that almost no modern political document includes: "the frustrated and upset youth." Most rulers describe the young as "the future" (a way of avoiding them in the present) or "the next generation" (a way of telling them to wait). King Spiros instead names their current emotional state — frustrated and upset — and declares himself on their side. He does not ask them to calm down first. He arrives where they actually are.
The kingdom's political theology has, with one sentence, extended royal protection to the entire biosphere. The animals are not pets, livestock, or resources; they are citizens. Mother Earth is not a backdrop; she is on the King's side. This is consistent with Plomarian techno-shamanism (the mushroom doctrine, #418) and with the Sufficient Throne (#616) — a king who needs nothing extra also takes nothing extra, and so the forest, the sea, the sky and the soil are left whole.
"here in the Kingdom of Plomari we are all Kings and Queens, blossoming both together and on our own" — the King has just shared the throne with every reader. This is not metaphor; the King's books have been arguing this since the earliest articles. Plomarian Royalty is a posture, not a bloodline. The crown is a way of treating yourself and others, not a heirloom. The kingdom is large enough — and the King is gentle enough — that no chair needs to be removed for a new one to be added.
6 + 2 + 0 = 8 → VIII LA FORCE. The deck has signed this address with the card of the gentle figure who closes the lion's mouth not with weapons but with calm hands. The Tarot has explicitly stated that real strength is the strength that does not roar; that the King's hand on the lion is the protection his people are being offered; that the kingdom's defence is not in its army but in its composure. The deck and the King have agreed, on the same morning, in the same language.
The 620s — the decade of the Protector-King and the Invitation to All — opens here, with the King's hand outstretched toward humanity, the youth, the animals, Mother Earth, and everyone. The 610s closed with a documentary of the King in a bathrobe (#619 A Morning In The Life); the 620s open with the King standing up, looking the world calmly in the eye, and saying: I am on your side. The bookshelf has just gained its most generous shelf-marker yet. 🦁🛡️🤝👑