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Trooping the colour booing

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theresalighttofindyou · 15/06/2026 10:54

AIBU to think this was well deserved?

Kate can glower at people as much as she wants but the monarchy is a rotten institution and people are getting more and more annoyed by it

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Dollymylove · 15/06/2026 11:23

Who are the booers and why are they booing? Trooping the Colour is on one of our big traditions, attracting big crowds. Anyone who is not happy with it is free to fuck off

Poppinpoppinpopcorn · 15/06/2026 11:17

theresalighttofindyou · 15/06/2026 10:58

I feel sympathy in a way, because they’ve been used as shields by their family. But they benefit massively.

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I really don't think the children benefit at all. Their lives are all mapped out before they are even born. They don't get any real choices about their life. Everyone knows who they are, they have no freedom, every day life is mapped out with security they carnt just decide for example to visit a friends house. I wouldn't want to wish being born royal on any child.

AmyDudley · 15/06/2026 11:14

I'm anti monarchy, but booing children is a dick move. Not surprised Kate looked annoyed, I'd be very pissed off and protective if someone was verbally abusive to my children, especially if those children had no say in what they have been born into. Good for her for not pretending to just accept it.

38thparallel · 15/06/2026 11:10

Is that the only way to protest.

It’s the most effective.
Guillotine or firing squad?

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theresalighttofindyou · 15/06/2026 11:07

38thparallel · 15/06/2026 11:00

@theresalighttofindyou
Why don’t you start a revolution and storm Buckingham Palace like the French revolutionaries stormed Versailles?
Since so many people are fed up with the monarchy I’m sure you’ll find plenty of willing sans culottes.

Is that the only way to protest?

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38thparallel · 15/06/2026 11:00

@theresalighttofindyou
Why don’t you start a revolution and storm Buckingham Palace like the French revolutionaries stormed Versailles?
Since so many people are fed up with the monarchy I’m sure you’ll find plenty of willing sans culottes.

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theresalighttofindyou · 15/06/2026 10:58

Netcurtainnelly · 15/06/2026 10:56

It's the children I feel sorry for. I guess they will have to get used to it though I guess.

I feel sympathy in a way, because they’ve been used as shields by their family. But they benefit massively.

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Netcurtainnelly · 15/06/2026 10:56

It's the children I feel sorry for. I guess they will have to get used to it though I guess.