[kingsurfer]

Thank you for your post. You hit the nail on the head. The only people in the UK who do not like the Royals are the socialist. The same people who banned Fox hunting and introduced the liberalisation in our schools.

[Deb]

As you know, Blair and the Labour party has been chipping away at the Royals and English culture for years. Dry-docking the Britannia (too expensive). Moth-balling the Queen's train (also,too expensive). And demanding taxes, open house castle tours and the general degradation of everything Royal.

The day the Left succeeds in ending the monarchy will be the day the English tourist industry takes a nose-dive and with it goes the economy of the UK.

When I go home to the Isle of Man, I plan on wearing a t-shirt that says: KILL A FOX FOR CHRIST!

[Sam the Sham]

Rupert Murdoch hates the royals because they symbolize the entire "Museum of England" that he hates.

[NZerFromHK]

When and where will the British Royal Family Soap Opera end? Sooner than I once thought possible, or than the Queen deserves. Unless there is cultural reversal, her descendants will one day move among the Umbertos, Farouks, and Zogs of the world.

From this description I can hardly charazterize Mr Dalrymple as socialist or at least hostile to the monarchy as an institution. In fact, he defends the institution and the Queen's dedication toduty. I would say he is in fact attacking the dominant values that has influenced Britain since 1945 and in other words, he is more conservative in temprament than you and I or almost anyone else in the whole United Kingdom.

[Bombay Bloke]

Actually, I'm not a socialist but I think the Royals are a joke.