Seriously? You must like social media. Food, health, heating, cooling, technology, travel... but SURE a handful lived in very big palaces. That’s your point?!
Seriously, you are comparing the standard of living of our poor to that of King George V or Queen Victoria and their related nobility? These government-subsidized poor certainly are not starving, but the kind of things available to royalty of “less than a century ago” are still way out of reach of such people.