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The British monarchy, according to the Victorian writer Walter Bagehot, “is commonly hidden like a mystery, and sometimes paraded like a pageant.”

The British sage Walter Bagehot wrote that monarchy runs on a magic that cannot stand the scrutiny of daylight.

Some 150 years ago, the acclaimed constitutional writer Walter Bagehot wrote that the British monarchy needed reverence and mystery.

As the Victorian commentator Walter Bagehot wrote of royal mystique: “We must not let in the daylight upon magic.”

The interactions between what the 19th Century writer Walter Bagehot described as the "dignified" and "efficient" elements of a constitution - illustrated in the UK's model of governance.