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I get you. I really do. But let me offer you some perspective. Monarchs are born into their role. They have no choice in the matter and are raised according to a blueprint of what a monarch shall be. They have no power, no voice, no vote.
I do get you. They don't know strife or hardship. But for the love od me, I'd never would have wanted to be born as a crown prince.
Now lets talk about their appendages (brothers, sisters, offspring), who do get a lot of money for being born, they heve a vote, freedom, power and a voice. The aristocrasy is what is costing the tax payer a lot of monies.
Billionaires on the other hand chose to hoard and not to share.
Personally, I don't mind a monarch, if they'd be paid at the same rate as government officers and only thw monarch. The rest of the family can go to work like normal people.
That would be more correct if the royals didn't regularly petition parliament to change laws that financially impact them.
The late queen did so on several occasions. Many of these law changes were not friendly to the environment either.
There are monarchs around the world who have stepped down and reframed their roles as part of modern democracy, yet the British ones cling to a particularly out of touch model.
They also tried to cover up the shenanigans of a peodphile sibling too.
So, sure, they are born into it, but that's no excuse for what they do and to suggest they don't know any better is a shallow view of humanity that supposes an inability for empathy.
Besides that, the monarchy acts as a symbol that some people are better and more elevated than others -- decreed by god -- only through the process of birth. This is a cornerstone of all nationalism, racism, and xenophobia that has no place in a modern civilisation.
Liz was protecting her shitstain son. When Charlie came in, he at least did something even if it wasn’t what we wanted. Hopefully Randy Andy sees justice soon. Very soon.
The thing about that is, there were royals born RECENTLY, who were intellectually challenged. They tried to bury that in the news, but they couldn’t. They basically dumped those two women in a group home and told no one about them.
Edit: there were a few actually. https://www.theroyalobserver.com/p/queen-elizabeth-cousins-locked-away-psycho-ward