Why Hate the British Royals?

Nice try, but you missed by one!



And failed again. While it's not what I was looking for, that was not a poor quality answer. Beautifully put.

Er... that's why she's on all the money? Or do you mean "hidden in plain sight"?



There are plenty of royal families of which one could say the same. None seem, however, to be accused of running the world with the same regularity as the UK royals.

I have to say I'm finding it really odd defending the Windsors.



They live in the same places the British royals have lived for hundreds of years. It doesn't mean they run the world right now.



According to The Sunday Times Rich List, there are 213 people in the country wealthier than her. They give her personal fortune as 270 million pounds, which is paltry compared even, say, to the Duke of Westminster with about 5,000 million.

Even out of the top 200, I'm sure that still gets you a lot of leverage if you want it and if you're prepared to put yourself in hock to the bankers.



In practice, she is always asked to do that. By a politician.



Now, see, this could be good. It's exactly the kind of accusation I see bandied about all the time. And I'd be prepared to believe it, if someone could supply me with some evidence to lift it out of the Land of Insubstantial Claims.



Ok... but if there's something specific you want me to know, why not link it yourself? This "air of mystery" thing gets old very quickly and can be used to disguise laziness.



Please provide definitive answers to these rhetorical questions if you want a serious discussion. I've looked at the Wiki entry, which was predictably thin, and then some other stuff... which just rehashed things like the Bush family's investment connections and referred to the UK royals as having "elder brother status" to the US connections. I don't think it really works like that.

Yeah, yeah, world domination. One article I read conjured the image of the Queen and various other members (no doubt including the US Ambassador) getting together to discuss how they can further put the screws on the middle classes. Am I alone in finding this a slightly ludicrous picture?



Actually, no, I have a speech impediment caused by a preternaturally massive tongue that means I have a lot of trouble with the letter "L".

I'm also far from convinced that they exist in any current genuine sense. There are plenty of people and organisations who claim illumination.

Ok, I can't say "Illuminati". Can you identify them and provide reasonable evidence that they exist, are powerful, and have a detrimental influence on the rest of humanity?.

Who can ignore any advice. Blair sucked up to her, allegedly, and supposedly Thatch didn't get on well with her, which I can believe.



Can you name an occasion that's happened in the last 100 years where the monarch did that off their own bat?



Can you imagine how long her Civil List would last if she stopped signing legislation? Can you name a single bill that she hasn't signed into law?



Theoretically, yes. But actually finding an instance where those powers are used independently might be tricky. Instead of talking generalities, please provide specifics.



Exactly.

How about this? You're born into wealth and privilege with no real political power but quite a lot of dull ceremonial duties that bring you (and, more to the point, your slightly dim-witted and racist husband) into contact with Johnny Foreigner. You're kept pretty busy, but it's not a terrible life. Why bother trying to run the world? You're part of an institution whose most powerful days are long gone, thanks, and there's no real prospect of that kind of unchecked power being yours.

Do you a) get on with your life because it's what you were born into and the alternatives are basically non-existent or b) try and amass enough power to control the world?

It's not like the family is like, say, the Bush dynasty, where getting and holding political power is clearly the single item on the agenda. The Windsors can't interfere in UK politics, and if one of them speaks out of turn, they get a slap.

Still waiting to see something concrete. Evidence, not innuendo.

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I wasn't aware that anyone did.



While I agree to some extent, I also think, as I said in the OP, that they fulfil an important psychological function that's not apparent until you go to the US.

Look at the outpouring of grief over Diana. Completely irrational. Would that have happened if she hadn't married Chuck? I don't think so. Miond you, if he'd married a munter like Camilla in the first place I doubt she'd have been as popular.

I'd favour a hugely reduced Civil List that basically covers the cost of state functions and the upkeep of buildings. Paradoxically, I think that this reduction in circumstances should be kept as quiet as possible. They have a ceremonial function, and that kind of revelation actually can damage it even more than twattish antics from the younger generation.

If you think that posting one article constitutes "doing the research", then you have a lot to learn.

I read the article. Here's a not untypical quote:



Hang on. Suppose all the Fed Chairman were Boy Scouts? Does that mean the scouts own the Fed?

This kind of "logic" is just laughable. I'm waiting for something serious here. Is there any actual evidence that the UK Royals run the world? A Rockefeller could buy and sell HRH Brenda many many times over, yet we're supposed to believe that the UK has "elder brother" status? It's not like the UK ever profits from this alleged influence. All the juicy Iraqi reconstruction contracts went to US firms: providing the US with the illusion they had an ally bought the UK nothing.

That whole article you posted is based on the false assumption that membership of the Pilgrims Society led to acts of power and corruption. It's more than possible that the Pilgrims' is just a dining club and the real action goes on elsewhere. More conventional CTs suggest the CFR and the Bilderbergers, both of which I can understand. The article does mention that the people it singles out are also CFR people, almost invariably.

Ultimately, the thing I'm having difficulty with is the idea that anyone who doesn't have to should want to defer to UK royalty. And there's as yet no evidence to suggest that anyone does, except at a sucky social occasion that's held a couple of times a year.

I keep hearing this stuff about the Rhodes Round Table, and that, in its day, may have carried some weight: but the UK is kind of on the skids and I can't see any good reason why it should retain any authority, or evidence that it does.

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I think you hit the nail on the head with the word symbolic.



This is not what I'm suggesting. Just to be clear, I think the monarchy is helpful as a lightning rod for irrational feelings about one's country. I certainly do NOT want the monarch to be the boss.

I see them as a bunch of not particularly bright, rather inbred people who fulful a particular function of our society (and for which duty we pay them rather too much, thanks). Giving power back to the Royals would definitely be a retrograde move.



Are you sure you mean white papers here? Can you give more detail of these incidents?



A friend of mine worked in the charity sector and he once attended a meeting at which the patron, Prince Andrew, showed up and was actually rather impressively well-informed and thoughtful about the subject. That surprised me, I can tell you, because the mere sight of that fat, smug face would at one time reduce me to a rabid, frothing mess, my one purpose to destroy the Royals and particularly Mr FatSmug.

My friend also heard that Di was in charities just for the photo-ops. No surprises there.



I have to say if I were offered it as a job, I'd still take it. While I do think that a lot of what they have to do is really not much fun at all, the perks are nonetheless pretty tempting. I can't hold out a lot of sympathy for them.

Oh dear, you just looked at the thread title and didn't really read what I wrote in the OP, did you?

Again, this is an example of the Queen giving her power away.

You could easily see this as the preparation for One World Government. But there's no guarantee that the UK would be on top, quite the reverse.

So for the people I'm really arguing with here - those who think The Royals Run The World - this is countervailing evidence.

Overall, I'm not impressed with the replies.

Most people don't read the OP, they just look at the title and spout off something that seems relevant to them but is often another manifestation of the irrational feelings that people have about the monarchy, either pro- or anti-.

So far, no real evidence they're running the world.

Still waiting.

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Thats because there not running the world. In my opinion they are on their last legs. They do have power, but in no way comparable with the US President. I guess they have the power to influence certain things, but people go mad when Charles starts sticking his nose in on things he should keep to himself.

I think maybe when the queen dies the royal family may come to an end. one can only hope

If UK is still the most powerful country in the world and especially financially and all the countries powers much go through her....then she's the most powerful woman in the world. LOL. Wouldn't surprise me if the old tw 'at was a reptillian. I can't believe in the 21st century the Brits are still entertaining this crazy idea of a monarch in the form of Queens and Princesses and Princes. What a joke! England may very well still be a powerful country but tis a former shell of herself that's for sure. And she's circling the drain these days. Good Riddence!

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I hope you enjoy some light hearted exchanges?...

Surely, giving this thread the title that you have you must expect to be dissapointed by some responses to some degree?

I dont have the time or energy to commit to researching and establishing any evidence above and beyond what would normally be considered as speculation and the more obvious ''conspiracy'' that suurounds the Monarchy. Especially when information of this nature is concievably originated from online sources and/or has been subject to personal conjecture from read persons both academic and public.

In summary, there's every possibility there could be higher ranking literature that may point to evidence of the Monarchy's true power in the world somewhere, but is this not the conundrum of researching in this field? evidence pointing to evidence pointing to evidence; where nothing is in fact proven...who really knows, but I like to entertain the idea that there's a certain mysticism about it that continues to fascinate me.

But, like you, I also anticipate a better response

Its hilarious as an American that the British still havent moved past such an arcane concept as "royalty"! In some ways the UK is as primitive as Saudi Arabia in that regard.

Even some sad people like the Canadians and the Australians consider that old woman their "Queen". To most Americans its quite quaint and utterly ludicrous to be servile to some old woman in a land half the world away!

In the end, it is perhaps the case of "each to their own" but while the West is busy trying to bring progress to the Middle East, it is pretty ludicrous to have Europeans follow the same arcane customs.

I think even in India, which once had many Maharajas and such has today done away with those arcane titles of unearned privilege.

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Educate yourself on the use of appropriate English language:

''Its hilarious as an American that the British still havent moved past such an arcane concept as "royalty"! In some ways the UK is as primitive as Saudi Arabia in that regard.''

Is that not inanely and obscenely generalising the British?

What a ridiculous statement....

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It is with more than a touch of irony then that one of the main arguments for keeping the Monarchy is that she draws the fat American tourists with the fat wallets 365 days a year.

Very few people in Britain care about the Queen. Mainly the older generation and certain football fans (Rangers, Chelsea) She has no real power. God Save The Queen may be the national anthem but we only sing it at international sporting events.

They are, largely, irrelevant.

I have my suspicions...of course, I HOPE there is no reason to despise the royal family (other than their aristocratic snobbery), but my higher senses give way to fear...

rich23, reference your query to HM the queen, refusing to sign the white papers, this was actually the queen Victoria who refused to believe that their was same sex relations in her regiment of nurses in the army (QVNA)
???. I'm almost a 100% sure she (HM) Victoria would not sign this parliamentary form so it was never unlawful to be a lesbian in the UK armed forces, there's other information about royals not signing the white forms but i lack the research to post .... remember when you are employed by the govt you sign the official secrets act and sign your oath of allegiance to HM the queen, then the govt.....

reply to post by IAF101

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your sure not up to speed on the way British life works, if employed by HM govt, you get alot of perks regarding pensions sick benefits and holidays and the such, if employed by HM armed forces your covered by a host of charities/veteran associations to help in time of need or injury, indeed these are mainly covered by the SOLDERS COVIANANT, and the royals pay a big part in securing funding for these institutions, and if need be she (HM) can kick ass if needs be if she does not agree with parliament ( IMO )

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Your country has only been going for 400 hundred odd years and you people are crapping yourselves about losing the constitution. We've had the monarchy in place since before America was even a pipe dream.

Look at the turnouts for when the Queen visits towns and cities, she's immensely popular, no-one cares about the rest of the royal family, its the queen and what she stands for and the rest of this country stands for.

I'm glad we have her as a representative for this country and we aren't just recognisable by the fat prick at downing street. She's been running this country for 57 years and it should stay that way.

Di was not just in charities for photo ops either.. take a real look for yourself at some of the work she did with the sick in africa and walking through open minefields in just a helmet. Would you do that just for a photo op?

Zosynspriracy... where to start... the UK is a joke? I'm gonna guess your a yank cos there seems to be a big anti British sentiment at the minute from a lot of Americans on here rippin the hell out of our country for no reason, not that clever when we're pretty much your only ally.

You don't know jack, and I mean absolutely diddly squat. Entertaining this crazy idea? Its tradition, its how this country gained the power it did and with the world changing the power could not remain in the hands of just the British, which is kinda funny cos its you guys that are the power grabbing bastards now...

Financially I don't think you've got anything to say either your country is in crazy levels of debt. The word debt doesn't even describe the colossal # that you've got yourselves into with your stupid levels of military spending and Obama splashing out on personalised Ipods and a jet straight over here to kiss our Queen's ass.

Good riddance to you too.. with the amount of enemies you're building it won't be long until someone, somewhere gets severely sick of the sort of sentiment you just exampled and you get a bomb dropped on your head.. Infact.. You might not even have to look outside of your own borders for what could be the final curtain for most of you, unlucky.

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Appears to me that you've just been completely flammed and rightly so. Shame, you utterly destroyed the theme of this thread because I was hoping, like the OP, that more insightful and constuctive contributions may have been engaged, but clearly not in your case.

How irritating you foolish types can be!

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Yeah and the only reason our country is in debt is because of the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve is a throwback to the Bank of England. Although we "won" the war the Bank of England never released it's financial grip on the Colonies. So in the end we never really one our freedom, financially atleast.

I don't hate the English. I hate the English government. Like us Americans you all have been taken over by a big, bloated, and tyrannical government and short of anarchy and revolution there isn't jack you all can do about it. You all wreaked havoc on the world. The last 50 years America has done the same. We will go the way of you soon enough if we aren't already there.

But to still languish at the feet of royalty is obscene and ridiculous. Pathetic and disgusting in my opinion.



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