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How long with the Royal Family last?

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  • 09-01-2020 12:44pm
    #1
    Sweet.Science
    Registered Users Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭


    Its 2020. Surely the time of Queens,Princes,Princesses,Dukes etc is up.

    Maybe when the Queen dies it will fizzle out


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    Day Lewin
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    Doubt it.
    Quite a little haul of jewels, palaces, paintings, there.
    Anybody would be glad to inherit them!


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    donkeykong5
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    Sweet.Science wrote: »
    Its 2020. Surely the time of Queens,Princes,Princesses,Dukes etc is up.

    Maybe when the Queen dies it will fizzle out

    Only person who ever deserved the title ROYAL in my opinion was diana


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    jimmii
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    No chance. Its bring in too many tourists. There will be a royal family if they like it or not!


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    ancapailldorcha
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    I'm sure they'll just invite another Germanic noble over to take the throne if they have to. This nonsense has persisted for over a millennium.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



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    Sweet.Science
    Registered Users Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭Sweet.Science


    Day Lewin wrote: »
    Doubt it.
    Quite a little haul of jewels, palaces, paintings, there.
    Anybody would be glad to inherit them!


    How can the UK justify this when there are hundreds at food banks just a stones throw from the Palace


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    Sweet.Science
    Registered Users Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭Sweet.Science


    jimmii wrote: »
    No chance. Its bring in too many tourists. There will be a royal family if they like it or not!

    They could open Buckingham Palace for tourists. It would bring in a lot more.


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    ancapailldorcha
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    Sweet.Science wrote: »
    They could open Buckingham Palace for tourists. It would bring in a lot more.

    Seconded. I want to see the Corgis.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



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    ELM327
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    The current one, not very long, perhaps similar for the current prince of wales, due to age
    But then the one after charles will last a while.


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    riffmongous
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    jimmii wrote: »
    No chance. Its bring in too many tourists. There will be a royal family if they like it or not!

    France and Austria do pretty well with just the buildings


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    walshb
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    The Royal family probably brings in as much cash to the county as it costs to have them in place...

    The Queen, herself is one of Britain's hardest working people.


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    GooglePlus
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    Sweet.Science wrote: »
    How can the UK justify this when there are hundreds at food banks just a stones throw from the Palace

    If it went to a vote, I reckon the people of the UK would vote in favour of keeping their royal family.

    I think they're a waste of money too but they see it as part of their national identity.


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    Sardonicat
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    walshb wrote: »
    The Royal family probably brings in as much cash to the county as it costs to have them in place...

    The Queen, herself is one of Britain's hardest working people.

    Yup. Up before dawn, on with the overalls and down the mines til dusk.


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    Winning_Stroke
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    Pretty sure the people would opt to keep a monarchy. And tbh, why not? Parliamentary democracies need some farce, figure-head position.


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    GLaDOS
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    Genuine question: How do the Royal family (the actual people) bring in tourists?

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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    ancapailldorcha
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    GLaDOS wrote: »
    Genuine question: How do the Royal family (the actual people) bring in tourists?

    There are always throngs of people around The Mile and Buckingham Palace. It's one of those things that people just associate with Britain. Part of its soft power and brand if you will. Like Doctor Who, red phoneboxes, black cabs and so on.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



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    irish_goat
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    ancapailldorcha wrote: »
    There are always throngs of people around The Mile and Buckingham Palace. It's one of those things that people just associate with Britain. Part of its soft power and brand if you will. Like Doctor Who, red phoneboxes, black cabs and so on.

    Getting rid of the Royal Family won't mean the Mile and Buckingham Palace disappear though...


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    jrmb
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    It'll survive in a more minimal form.


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    #19
    Sardonicat
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    ancapailldorcha wrote: »
    There are always throngs of people around The Mile and Buckingham Palace. It's one of those things that people just associate with Britain. Part of its soft power and brand if you will. Like Doctor Who, red phoneboxes, black cabs and so on.

    So is Versailles to France. There are no privileged parasites living there anymore, though. By all means have a monarch for Head of State, but why all the rest of the leeches?


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    ancapailldorcha
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    irish_goat wrote: »
    Getting rid of the Royal Family won't mean the Mile and Buckingham Palace disappear though...

    I don't recall claiming otherwise.
    Sardonicat wrote: »
    So is Versailles to France. There are no privileged parasites living there anymore, though. By all means have a monarch for Head of State, but why all the rest of the leeches?

    I don't recall advocating for a monarchy.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



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    Sardonicat
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    ancapailldorcha wrote: »
    I don't recall claiming otherwise.



    I don't recall advocating for a monarchy.

    I don't recall saying you did.


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    irish_goat
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    ancapailldorcha wrote: »
    I don't recall claiming otherwise.

    The assumption was that you were replying to GLaDOS's question...
    GLaDOS wrote:
    Genuine question: How do the Royal family (the actual people) bring in tourists?


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    GLaDOS
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    Yeah that's kinda the point of my question above, tourists will still visit these places with or without a Royal family I would imagine.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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    faceman
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    An active royal family is far more popular than empty buildings. The royal family are hugely popular in the U.K. Just look at the papers today.

    Can you imagine someone suggesting we scrap the role of the Irish president for similar reasons.


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    Sardonicat
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    faceman wrote: »
    An active royal family is far more popular than empty buildings. The royal family are hugely popular in the U.K. Just look at the papers today.

    Can you imagine someone suggesting we scrap the role of the Irish president for similar reasons.

    The role of President does not confer unearned, lifelong privilege on extended members of the President's family.


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    easypazz
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    GLaDOS wrote: »
    Yeah that's kinda the point of my question above, tourists will still visit these places with or without a Royal family I would imagine.

    Maybe or maybe less people will bother.

    The changing of the Queens guard takes place every day and is in itself a big tourist attraction.

    If there was no Queen there would need for this.

    Of course they could continue with it anyway just for the tourists.

    People love scandal about the royals, and all helps attract people to the country.

    They also visit the commonwealth countries which promotes the UK as a place to visit and do business.


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    Yurt2
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    The whole royals bring in tourism is a bit fuzzy to me. Are they doing surveys of tourists at Heathrow arrivals asking confused Chinese people are they here for Charles and Camilla or William and Kate?

    I've never whipped out my credit card to book a flight somewhere because of a royal family in all my life.

    I thoroughly enjoyed a long weekend in Stockholm last year but I don't think anyone on the flight gave a rattlers about their royal family. Monarchists there probably have the same arguement - "look at all the tourists here for our Queen / King!"

    If there was evidence having royalty seriously drove tourism, Bord Fáilte would be conducting a nationwide search at this very moment to crown somebody.


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    #28
    [Deleted User]
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    The monarchy was archaic a century ago, long overdue for the scrapheap. All in favour of a meritocracy over birthright, ergo pull up your bootstraps and earn it.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Sardonicat wrote: »
    The role of President does not confer unearned, lifelong privilege on extended members of the President's family.

    No. the people have to go through the farce of an election to decide which pointless head of state they want to do the job, before retiring on a large pension for the rest of their lives.

    as has been said a million times, if you were starting from scratch, which Ireland effectively did, then you wouldn't consider a monarchy, but why go through the hassle of making the change for little or no benefit.


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    #30
    The Satanist
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    How long would they last in a Royal Rumble is the real question.


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    #31
    Iscreamkone
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    My lad is the same age as Prince George. My lad will be retired after a lifetime of work before Prince George will take up the job he was born to do - become King.


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