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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer

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ORIGINAL: VideoAdminRho

Since the OP wishes to keep this out of P&R - please, let's leave American politics out of the conversation.

You know, seriously, Rho, it's almost as though since it's 'only' about UK politics, it doesn't really fit into the category of 'politics' at all? It's quite strange. For some Brits, like me, this really is hot politics. For most Brits, it doesn't matter one way or another. For a few, our Royal Family is vital and they're the flip side of the coin that I live on. For Americans, I have no doubt, it doesn't matter much and is just some whimsical little debate.

Personally, I wouldn't want to leave out American politics here. For instance, I'd particularly like to know why a Royal Family in the UK is somehow acceptable, right and 'natural', whereas in the USA it would look unbelievably stupid, ridiculous and unacceptable.

Oh, and another thing, Rho . . . Royalists in the UK have always banged it as much as they can that our Royal Family is "above politics". To we non-Royalists, this is bollocks. It's a game that pro and anti Royals have been playing here in the UK for centuries.

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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer

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ORIGINAL: TNDommeK

How awesome it must be to have a Queen....instead of what we have. [:'(]
Seriously though, that must be awesome.

The Royal Family, plus its buildings and what-not, does indeed add a bit to the UK's attraction as a tourist attraction. But few tourists say that the existence, or otherwise, of our RF would have made any appreciable difference to their given motivation to visit the UK. There are more visitors to the London Eye, apparently, than there visitors to Buckingham Palace.
Seriously though, that must be awesome.

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For me, the most revolting thing about British culture has always, and will probably always be, its class-ridden culture. The institution of the British Royal Family underpins all that. I don't see it even beginning to fade away till the Royal Family disappears.

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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer

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ORIGINAL: VideoAdminRho

Since the OP wishes to keep this out of P&R - please, let's leave American politics out of the conversation.

You know, seriously, Rho, it's almost as though since it's 'only' about UK politics, it doesn't really fit into the category of 'politics' at all? It's quite strange. For some Brits, like me, this really is hot politics. For most Brits, it doesn't matter one way or another. For a few, our Royal Family is vital and they're the flip side of the coin that I live on. For Americans, I have no doubt, it doesn't matter much and is just some whimsical little debate.

Personally, I wouldn't want to leave out American politics here. For instance, I'd particularly like to know why a Royal Family in the UK is somehow acceptable, right and 'natural', whereas in the USA it would look unbelievably stupid, ridiculous and unacceptable.

Oh, and another thing, Rho . . . Royalists in the UK have always banged it as much as they can that our Royal Family is "above politics". To we non-Royalists, this is bollocks. It's a game that pro and anti Royals have been playing here in the UK for centuries.

Thanks for saying this, Peon, because I was trying and failing to think of a tactful way of saying it. I don't see how a debate about whether a monarchy is right/wanted can be anything OTHER than political. It is, after all, one of our oldest governing institutions, even if it's only symbolic now.