Haddon
Haddon finds the monarchy at odds with his vision as a writer. A key theme of The Curious Incident, he says, is the idea "that no human being is inherently inferior to any other. I felt it would have been hypocritical to meet with someone whose job involves being inherently superior to everyone else."
Phillips "believes passionately in the ability of healthy societies to take in and recognise those who are different from them; to enable them to rise to the top, without feeling there's only so far they can go". Haddon would "love to live in a society where no one is seen as inferior on account of who their parents are. But I don't think this is ever going to happen while we have a head of state who gets the job - and the frocks and castles - simply because their father had the job before them."
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