The British Royal Family thread

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Fify. :slightly_smiling_face:

It takes a while, but eventually it works – people forget or just stop caring.

People who grew up knowing about Harry et al. won’t suddenly forget, just like Rama X didn’t forget that his sister, though officially stripped of her royal title by their father, is still de facto a princess, hence his ban on her running for office (because the royal family isn’t supposed to be involved in politics, of course).

But what of H&M’s descendants?

When they dug up Ricky #3 from that parking lot in 2012, the curved spine was a clue, but they didn’t feel confident saying it was really his skeleton until they tracked down a 16th generation great niece in the middle of nowhere and got a DNA match (actually from a 17th generation great nephew because the great niece was already dead). I’m willing to bet those great nieces & nephews weren’t recognized by many people outside of genealogical circles.

No-one in rural Cornwall cares if you’re famous, if the 60 Minutes interview with John le CarrĂ© about two years ago is to be believed.

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Personally I have no dog in this race. Especially since I really don’t understand how that family operates. Are they the world’s richest welfare family? Or a tourist trap?

But I can see a bit of why Markle would want to leave after looking Piers’ Twitter account. Oh man, the vitriol and assumptions. Yet, I don’t feel too sorry for her. IMHO it might be love however I do think she is a master social climber, which is truly a skill set of it’s own.

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Yeah he’s such an arsehole.
It’s because she blanked.him
Massive ego
Tiny balls.

Did you read the daily mail frontpage hatchet job he did on her ?

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I’ve heard some British people describe the royal family as “very expensive pets.”

Can’t say I quite understand.

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Nope. Cosmopolitan and all the other ladies’ rags have been pumping out so much I’m tired of it.

One funny thing I did read was a comment on Twitter about how all of Britain’s relationships eventually break up them. The US, India, etc. Queen Liz might be the real issue here :joy::joy:

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Hey, didn’t you hear the Donald? That relationship is the highest degree of special! :rainbow:

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Seems like that felt hard done by.

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Some of these really are just absurd. Can’t say I blame her for leaving as she could truly do nothing right in their eyes.

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The general feeling is Harry wanted out and Meghan provided him the support to do it.

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Wrong way around the Royal family consider everyone else as proles or plebs.

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They supposedly much prefer the working classes to the upper middle class, if that counts for anything. The upper class can’t stand Royalty.

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True. The middle class are of course too uppity for them.

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of course they don’t want harry to leave. kick harry out first then its going to be them next! they are shitting their gold pants right now.

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The media has him framed as pussy-whipped and doing only as Meghan wishes, of course.

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I think they meant it more as in like having this thing they have to pay out the ass to keep alive. Taxes or something. I honestly don’t know, I don’t have a clue how the royals get their money.

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Is that due to the fact the upper class are in a “you almost had it” situation.

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Taxes and trust funds it seems. Charles gets his from the Corwall trust as do the boys. The boys got two trusts from their mom and great-grandmother. Then there’s another trust that the Queen doles out to all working members.

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They’re never going to win and I think they’ve long since realised this. Why bother trying when whatever you do you’re the bad guy?

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If they’re working they don’t need a trust. Just pay them an hourly rate.