Well it wasn't very rules Britannia at all, your just saying that with a lack of come back from the statements made, your psychology is a bit off i'd say and your analysis of past and present psychological thought processes is a bit bad. Learn the difference between how things were and how they are now and realise they are 2 different things entirely.
Your claims about British rulers always fighting on the front-lines (who was the last? Henry VII?), your claims about how brilliant Wellington was, your claims about how Briton are and always have been a proud people (which, by the bye, is totally untrue. I know a lot of Englishmen and they're certainly arrogant, but not proud).
Worst is the laziest of all defences: the claim that you can't judge people of the past by modern moral standards. Morality hasn't changed, especially not in the last 200 years, but I doubt it has even in the last 2000 years. There's still slavery in the world, there's still murder, there's still war, there's still prejudice, people still turn traitor and are loathed for it. If our morality was so much more enlightened none of this would be a problem.
Henry VII might of been the last king yes but the last prince? I'll think you find are the Current Harry and William. They are still quite prominant on the front pages of news. Also you could count the Current queen who served in the military for the RAF although still in the UK at the time she was still serving within the military none and less. Its all still there and a lot of the Royal Family still serve within the military.
And Morality has changed, for example it is now socially acceptable for women to get pregnant from Anonymous Males ... infact you can happily go and get impregnated without a man. Where as if you take this back less than 50 it would be socially unacceptable and often get you disowned by the family. Also the death sentence ... but now its pretty much abolished within the UK except for treason, which will probably never get enforced anyway, and that was stopped after 1964 ... my Grandad was training to be a hangman so it would of been interesting to learn if it carried on.
But there are just a few morality changes in Civilian life, militarily now you can see a big difference for example within field commissions being given out by tests rather than extreme bravery to the point of near death. Generals are not chosen by Gentry and are now chosen though rigerous training and testing.
Morality has changed but it is more specific than you think, just because something exists on one side of the world dosn't mean it exists on the other, Slavery is completely abolished on this side of the world, it is completely socially unnacceptable and would land you a lifetime imprisonment ... it still happens though but it dosn't mean "Oh morality is the same because it still exists" no ... it is just because some people use it for their personal benefit.
Also Wellington did have his downfalls, like many Brits his own arrogance and willingness to bat above his station at times trying to overreach himself which eventually backfired in being offered Prime minister again when he frankly didn't want to at all ... leaving a horrible political gap to fill.
I can happily start saying positive things about Stalin or Mao if you like? you can call me over Russian or Chinese then?
