Why am I not The Queen?

[DentistWimp]

I am watching the Invitation to a Royal Wedding . Why do I not have a police escort for my weekly flowers? I want a castle and factories to make my favourite cake

It’s not fair. I want a lot of money and a privelaged lifestyle

What, the cake? You don’t stay that slim by eating cake.

Like The Queen I prefer a fruit cake and gin and dubonnet before dinner.

Don't go too much on the Dubonnet - I could easily have been an independently wealthy woman if my Grandpa had not been a hopeless alcoholic.

Can you imagine continually having to dress up, go out and shake hands, make speeches and look fascinated with some new factory day after day after day?

Easily! Seriously if I can get up early every day, dress up for work, feign interest in my customers/job/boss look fascinated at a potato painting my daughter has “made” at nursery for £15k imagine what I could do for a couple of millions and guaranteed job security for my descendants!

It’s not privileged it’s a guides cage you can’t marry who you want

You can’t get divorced easily
You can never really say what you think you can’t move freely round the uk

I am pretty certain GCHQ will be listening in to them

Never having any real privacy

Nice bit of virtue signalling @biscuitraider

Harry is about to marry a divorced mixed race American. They can marry who they like. Why would gchq be listening in to them? What would they do if The Queen started chatting about terrorism? Nothing! We were a twist of fate away from having a nazi on the Throne. There would have been nothing we could have done about it if we had outside of overthrowing the monarchy.

the worst thing about being Queen has got to be enduring things like The Royal Variety or that time she had to stand on a barge in the rain for hours.

Good bits :

Gin
Horses
Minions
Tiaras
Houses
Gold Carriage

And 3 out of 4 of the Queen's children are divorced- seems fairly easy to me.

Call it what you will Crowd, i've got many faults but greed, entitlement, and lack of moral conscience isn't amongst them, but blowing ones own trumpet is something the royals excel at i would have thought......and how the gullible fall for it all.

The very concept of a Royal Family is all a bit emperor's new clothes, especially with commoners marrying into the farce.

At some point, surely, people will wake up to the ridiculousness of it all

One of the most disturbing things, for me, about a constitutional monarchy, is the fact that it actually enshrines the most extreme form of inequality into the very fabric of society.

Metoodear absolute nonsense, of course they're privileged, how odd to say they're not.
"They can't marry who they want"? well Charles got exactly what he wanted didn't he, married Diana, got his heir, divorced her and married Camilla. So what do you mean, "they can't marry who they want"? Talk about having your cake and eating it....

As for "travelling freely round the UK"?.....they travel wherever they want, and at huge cost to the taxpayer.

The "lack of privacy" you talk about is nonsense, the monarchy is shrouded in secrecy, and what contribution they do give to society is hugely rewarded.

After the Peter Townsend incident (which was what, 60 years ago?) the royal family have pretty much married who they wanted.

Andrew was encouraged to drop his relationship with Koo Stark in the mid-80s, as she was considered unsuitable.

I think even The Queen now knows that saying anyone is unsuitable to marry into her family barring convicted criminals is so laughable it's untenable to hold that position. No one could be as scandal hit as the Windsor's!

Well, I hope Donald Trump isn’t using this summer’s trip to get Baron betrothed to Princess Charlotte. Cos that would be baaaaad.

I agree with caperberries. Commoners marrying in takes out the mystique/blue blood aspect and that could be their undoing. Look at the abuse KM and MM get.

Surely one of the only reasons to have them is their mystique.

If I was the Queen I'd have a champagne menu and every evening I'd have a champagne o'clock and try a new one. Then if I felt like a snack I could ring the bell. I reckon I'd get used to that..!

They can marry who they like but they may have to give up their title and money to do so.
That's why Margaret gave up Townsend.

I think there is still a degree of religious apartheid though. No catholics allowed on the throne I believe still!

The Queen doesn’t like champagne. I mean, really!

But royalty can't keep marrying royalty. Especially since all the European Royals are related through Queen Victoria. They were walking a genetic tightrope as it was before they started marrying commoners'. Their 'blue blood' wouldn't have done their 'mystique' much good if they just carried on inbreeding.

Because keeping the commoners out worked out so well for the Hapsburgs

I understood the 'no catholics' rule was abolished at the same time they gave males and females equal rights to the Throne. Before Kate and William had DC.

ajandjjmum a member of the Royal Family may now marry a Catholic without forfeiting their right to succeed to the throne, as of 2013, but the monarch must still be a Protestant!