Are the English royal family the greatest scam ever played?

agreed 1000%

You need to get the protocol right, when your time comes to meet HRH. Men bow and women curtsy (not the same word as courtesy).

You're some princess.

Same with Royal families everywhere, for thousands of years they used to run the place until we got governments..

Now they just mainly just born into a duty of performing ceremonies and functions.

If King Chaz III came round here acting the bollix all big eared and hoity toity wanting me to wave or bow, I'd be like "here Chaz, no, you might be robbin' them eejits blind across the water, no brains and happy without them, but coming' over here shouting the odds, I say no Chaz, get back on yer golden carriage and feck right off, you and that Camilla, go on, git aaahht of it, on yer bike".

They need turfing out of their palaces and castles and get the National Trust to take it all over, Feckin national disgrace the lot of them, it is shite from the dark ages ffs.

They are merely actors who are in character 24/7.  

All the world’s a stage,

And all the men and women merely players;

They have their exits and their entrances;

The whole population, really??? Incorrect. Yes there are a majority of boot licking simps at present but thankfully that majority is becoming less and less as time progresses and there is a distinct movement to do away with the inbred anti-democratic nonsense

There are several things at play here, not just one guy or a family that have convinced everyone else they are superior beings.

There is a cohort of land owners, media owners, filtering down to your Nicholas Witchell types on 250k a year, that know this is all BS but also realise that this institution is at the top of a system with its hand on the scale working in their favour. There can never be true equality with a royal family, this suits those paying 40k a year to send their offspring to Harrow or Charterhouse. A good number of those who are successful and influential that are not born into it are brought in via honours, "Sir Keir". The system maintains itself pretty impressively.

Then there is the everyman on the street desperate for a sense of nationalism, who has to hark back to his great grandfather fighting in WWII in order to scratch this itch. To anyone with any sense of self worth the queen's funeralpalooza was Pyongyang levels of crazy but to a lot of the population of the UK it was finally a way to be British. The left wing or liberal equivalent is British people that say the 2012 Olympics was the last time the country felt great etc. It is this same wanting to belong they're tapping into.

People underestimate how powerful repetition is. There is a reason the narrative is these people are a tourist attraction anachronism. Costs are always put into the perspective of per UK resident, so a funeral only cost £1 per person, a coronation £1.50, "they bring in X in tourism" etc. They are made out to be benign but they're a malignancy that costs the country far more than can be measured per capita.

IMH, republican to my soul, O.

I have been watching with a little bit of a smirk tbh. As the Penny drops for a lot of Brits that they are expected to pledge fealty to a man in a fancy hat, who is better than them and sovereign of their nation by dint of birth.

One thing I am fairly sure will be a result of the fancy dress parade? Is a growing and ever louder Republican movement in the UK. Asking the oath of allegiance naysayers what else they have in common with Sinn Fein can be a great way to pass a bit of time on twitter 😉😁

Sounds interesting, do you have a podcast?

I'd love to have a man to squeeze my toothpaste.

Should probably lose the bowing and curtsey, it's a bit 17th century.

Wouldn't fancy the job though,bit of an open prison for them. No wonder Harry got out.

...couldnt imgaine so, id imagine they generally feel very entitled, as they were all born into the situation, but we could very well be watching the final installment, as wealth disparities are now growing rapidly in the country......

Republicanism in UK is tiny. Even SNP were talking about staying in the commonwealth

Its even more bizarre that he continues to be the Head of State of Australia, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, Papua New Guinea, St Christopher and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, New Zealand, Solomon Islands and Tuvalu.

Imagine being a “subject” of someone who you are also expected to curtsy to in the year 2023. Beyond pathetic.

That must be a euphemism for something.

If the people of Great Britain and Northern Ireland are willing to adopt a gentleman of German/Greek heritage and make him their King I say let them off.

You would have to have the top tier of the royals say the two oldest living royal brothers, to at least each have knocked about and have been best buddies with two of the top level top international all time record holding multiple serial child rapists from say two top G7 countries, UK / US and maybe one or both drawn in to their activities and caught bang to rights.

Apart from HDMI movies taken of both top royals caught in the act and a full admission and full public apology after, then like the Catholic Church that were given the job of baby sitters for hundreds of years in Ireland and were caught out hundreds/thousands of times, destroying thousands of lives and still got away with it Scott free, sure ye have not got a shittin' chance fer sure.

A lot of consternation about the cost of the Coronation across the water,hundred million apparently.

All of the other European Royals have long since abandoned the Coronation Ceremony. It's all a bit ostentatious at least.

The insurance industry would give it a good run for it's money imo.

But yes, the British monarchy is an impressive scam to have pulled off for this length of time.

And they’re the British Royal family, not the English Royal family.