Another chance for the Brits to get rid of this weird institution.
Will he turn to Homeopathy or one of the other crank medical remedies he has promoted in the past?
I bet he’ll do everything but credit only the homeopathy/alt treatments
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My biggest takeaway from the article is that he’s 75. Holy shit, I would’ve guessed 86.
Yeah, I thought this was a typo first.
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Hell of a performance review.
lol
I don’t like the monarchy either. But I assume you haven’t seen anyone suffer from cancer. If you did, it’s a misery you won’t wish on your worst enemies.
Let him be the last and turn their houses into museums with the money going to the countries they demolished
Heh, that’s a good one. They are planning to send something to those countries already, but it’s immigrants.
Anyway, at this point some say the British royals are a net benefit for the country as a tourist attraction. Paris has Disneyland, London has Buckingham… 🤷
They do have a lot more soft power over the government than many give them credit for though, plus some (so far) unused actual power that they only don’t use by tradition (which these days is more clearly a bad idea to rely on than ever). Plus all there’s all that money that goes into the pageantry of it (royal weddings, etc).
I feel like it’s be one thing to let them keep their royal titles, but they shouldn’t be enmeshed with the state in any actual way imo.
French palaces make money without supporting the austentacious lifestyle of monarcht.
The “ostentatious lifestyle” is what drives the souvenir market.
You go to Buckingham, and can buy all sorts of random junk with a photo of the monarchs, royal symbols, and whatnot. They’re even collectible!
Last time I was at Versalles, they were selling… hat umbrellas. Like, seriously? Come on, at least sell some toy guillotines with a series of monarchs with detachable heads, or something… but that seems to be too grim for the general public, so… hat umbrellas. 🙄
