Sounds reasonable to me. But then again I don’t see the point in having a state sanctioned caste system where a single family, by virtue of their being born, gets to live in unimaginable luxury and have their every need and wanted tended to all at taxpayer expense. Of course though, I am not British so maybe I’m not supposed to understand it.
Your ancestors left that system. You're making them proud by rejecting it today.
Our politican, if not ethnic, ancestors were right to kick those inbred twits out. Here’s looking forward to the UK becoming the Republic of Great Britain. Its about time!
Our political, if not ethnic, ancestors were right to kick those inbred twits out. Here’s looking forward to the UK becoming the Republic of Great Britain. Its about time!
For one thing, the witless don't generally hero-worship their political candidates if they have a royal family to occupy their few brain cells. Keeps the idiot vote down to a dull roar.
And the royals work pretty hard for their money (most of which is not due to the monarchy but to their hereditary holdings in Chelsea and the City of London as Dukes of Cornwall, etc.) A constant round of openings, state dinners, being polite while bored to tears, etc. Like being stuck in the most boring business meeting you ever attended -- forever.
And no private life at all, and no privacy. Imagine having a couple of live-in servants who know all your business (they always do) and then multiply that by a couple of thousand. Plus the press standing ready to report every scandal, controversy, and gaffe, and even making up a few.
I wouldn't do it for ANY amount of money (not that there's any chance of that happening to the descendant of an English carriagemaker, a Scottish MacGregor on the run from the law, and a bunch of Alabama dirt farmers!)
True enough. Of course, though, there are many simple things in life they never get to have...if the Queen wanted to get together with a senior ladies group at church and go window shopping, for example, she couldn’t exactly do that. I wouldn’t want that kind of a life - some things all the money in the world cannot make up for.
Leaving aside some quibbles about 'every need and want tended to' (debatable), nor do most Britons - until we consider the alternatives. As somebody once said about something else, the monarchy is the worst possible system for appointing our head of state except all the others. I find that when, as happens from time to time, I'm attracted by the virtues of republicanism, it's a salutary and immediate corrective to rehearse mentally the list of probable candidates for the Presidency of a British Republic. No, thank you very much.