Entirely ceremonial and they get to stay rich forever. The only good Monarch is a dead Monarch.
Queen Elizabeth II, Longest Reigning Monarch of England/UK, Dies
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The royals provide a nice distraction for the arseholes that actually own/run the country. I imagine this will conveniently cover up some Tory fuckery.
Debbie in accounting can provide a bit of a distraction, but she needs a few bottles of Lambrini and some vaseline, and will probably get arrested. The king gets much wider press coverage and can't be charged with anything except treason, so he's much more useful in that regard.
Well, *mumble mumble mumble*
Though, for some reason, people like the royal family, royal visits get loads of people excited and standing around to watch them go past.
As an aside, every odd numbered King Charles so far has been beheaded. Ok, that makes one of them. Sort wonder why they went with that name.
Oh I get that. It just seems like, from the reading of that announcement, that the King expects people to believer he's like at a desk, signing papers or having political meetings. Like that there's a job that goes along with the bullshit royal privileges.
Well, the most impact they’ve ever had here from memory was the Queen’s involvement in what we call The Dismissal. In short, the Governor General - the Crown’s representative in Australia - essentially told Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and his party they were fired for failing to pass a budget through an obstructionist parliament.
There is a great deal more to it than that of course but they do have some level of power. Plus I think it’s still law that the monarch must sign certain laws once passed by Parliament.
There is a great deal more to it than that of course but they do have some level of power. Plus I think it’s still law that the monarch must sign certain laws once passed by Parliament.
Yeah, they have to do that. The last time a monarch in the UK didn't give approval was some centuries back, as the political situation suddenly and drastically changed before they signed it, so asking the monarch to not give approval was a convenient way of cancelling a law they didn't want anymore.
Interestingly, something similar happened in Australia this century, they discovered at the last moment that some of the procedure had been missed, so the got the Governor General to not give approval so they could go back and do it properly.
His son Charles II meanwhile was a French puppet who kept losing wars to the dutch and arranged a marriage that ultimately got his dynasty kicked out of England. The name Charles has kind of a bad track record.
The only thing I can find talking about him being against chemotherapy is that site's article, and this Washington Post article about his beliefs on "integrated health care" involving things like coffee enemas and fruit juices. So while I'd like to make a joke about printing off King William stationery, I'm not sure I believe that allegation.
If he was (and honestly, I doubt it), impending mortal peril has a way of concentrating a person's attention on what works. Although there are notable exceptions.
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Another day of being deeply ashamed that these clowns managed to colonise us for the better part of a millennium.
I remember when I was a kid in infant school, I couldn't have been much older than 5 or 6 and we got taken out of school because some minor Royal was going to pass through the town I lived in. I remember standing around for what felt like forever and then a car drove past and I got taken back to school. I was so disappointed by what happened. I just did not see the point. I still don't
Please no, please don't die Charley. I can't take another Royal funeral, not so soon after the last grotesque display. If he dies, I am completely disconnecting from all media and maybe going and living in a field away from people for a while.
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If a member of the royal family gets killed every month how long would it take to bankrupt Great Britain? Apparently Queen Elizabeth's funeral cost about $200 million. I have absolutely no idea how many members of the royal family there are, though I assume that funeral costs for the rest of them would be significantly lower because people like them significantly less.
It wouldn't: $200 million spent is $200 million that ultimately winds its way to workers (and shareholders) and supports jobs. In other words, royal funerals would simply become an industry - albeit not, perhaps, an ideal one for the government to be subsidising given there were surely better options (like improving naitonal infrastructure).
The question is whether it would be a funeral of the same size.
Charles has had a very short reign until now and is not remotely as popular or well known as Elizabeth. I would question whether he could really draw a similar number of guests etc.
Charles has had a very short reign until now and is not remotely as popular or well known as Elizabeth. I would question whether he could really draw a similar number of guests etc.
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I believe that part of that $200 million figure was lost productivity due to the country basically shutting down for the funeral.