Would you want to be in the Royal Family?

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I mean as Queen or future Queen next in line for succession.

I wouldn't! Not worth all the riches in the world to live in a gilded cage under hugely intense scrutiny. I think it would be a very boring and at the same time highly anxiety-inducing life. And the worst part would be knowing my children would be trapped in it also.

I would rather be my average self, living up north in a terrace house and working full time to pay the bills, but with relative anonymity and freedom. I'm sure if I were in a worse situation in life I would be happy to swap but without huge worries about food and shelter I wouldn't.

YABU - yes I would love to be Queen
YANBU - no, I'd hate it too

Of course not.

I want to live a life that is purposeful, and I think the RF are pointless.

Plus I would hate the media scrutiny/constantly being on show.

I wouldn’t mind a minor role. Duchess of Someplace. Just high days and holidays,quick wave and back home in time for tea.

No, not at all.
Even if I fell in love (somehow) with a future royal, I don't think I could put myself or my future children through that.

Maybe the Monaco Royal Family.

No. I wouldn't like the feeling that myself, husband and children could be targeted by terrorists at any time.

No not at all… I feel quite sorry for those born into it.

Not being able to go for a walk, go to the supermarket, just leave the house looking like dogs breakfast sounds so stifling…. How do you raise a kid in this fake world yet is meant to represent the world 🌎

I've always said hell no because of all the shit you have to face but actually I've changed my mind. Insanely rich and the best of everything and total financial security for life? Yeah. I'd sell my soul to the daily mail for that.

No. There's a reason both William , Harry and Charles got turned down by the aristos they asked - those women were close enough to see the life is awful.

Rather one of the other roles, like the Kents, don’t seem to do an awful lot but have all the benefits.

The MN Royal Family Board demonstrates exactly why I would fund their lives unbearable.

Yes. I rather cynically realise now unlimited money can solve most things.

Not a life I'd choose.
I'm probably a bit weird but I'd hate to live in a big house as well , even an open plan barn conversion would freak me out , all that space around you !
Give me cosy everytime.

I wouldn't want to be the monarch, but queen consort or wife of a royal duke might work for me. I don't think it's the easy life people think it is though, as the Markle woman discovered.

No. I’d love the cash/property, but I don’t think being a public facing person is a decent enough trade off.

As a childless woman the only advantage I can see of that life is the security and lack of worry about old age. Knowing you will receive the very best care and every comfort until you draw your last breath.

Well, no, because my work is meaningful and very important to me, and the RF are unspeakably pointless, but they have extremely easy, idle lives, cushioned by vast wealth and an apparently widespread general impression that showing up and waving and smiling at some event constitutes ‘work’. It baffles me that people who work themselves to the bones to get by don’t resent them more than they do.

Yes, but only if I was Queen in my own right, not married into it.

I would banish Andrew to some isolated island for starters.

I think I would like Anne & her attitude. Could see us being besties.

I would get William to cop on or disinherit him & send him to the island too if he didn't.

I would live long enough to pass on crown to Charlotte. Not risking a male royal in the top role again.

Kate can stick around, I like her. Get her whatever help she needs & a proper photographer.

Edward, Sophie, Zara, Eugene & Beatrice would be elevated to other roles. They seem decent and less dramatic than the others. (Zara may have to ditch Mike but I'd play the long game there).

Harry would be given decent therapy and if he could see the light could come back, with Meghan. They would have to a serious adjustment of attitude & mindset & an NDA but I could forgive. I believe a compromise could be found.

There would be a total relaunch.

Clear out of staff with any dated attitudes.
A full PR overall.
A downsizing of properties.
The courtesy would be eliminated.
More diversity on all levels.
A refocused attitude on serving the people.

I wouldn't give a shit about the money. I would want it to go back to what Queen Elizabeth made it and meant it to be (sans Andrew). I love a turnaround project and would relish it. I think it could be achieved with a lot of common sense & hard work.

The Crown - under new management- shape up or ship out.

I would not want to be related to Prince Andrew in any way.

No. I have meaningful work and the satisfaction of supporting myself through my own skills. I have never had to edit a photograph of me with my family because nobody cares what we look like.

I think Zara has an absolutely charmed life. Best of both worlds. I'd love to have my family all living on the same "estate".

Yeah go on then, only because I've no fucking idea of how I'll find my retirement and I'd trade that stress for the stress of opening the odd leisure centre.

Ideally like others though I'd take a landed gentry role. All the unearned money, Duke of carabaocup title and just having to peg will every couple of months to earn my status seems like a fair trade.

Not at all. Those kids have every possible advantage but they won't get to choose what they want in life. What if George wants to be an actor or a musician or work in tech!

Charlotte will spend her life being judged on her weight and what hat she has on.

I have no bad feeling at all about the royals but you couldn't pay me to live the life

No. I'm never going to have money ir own property, but if I could be swap my life for that, I wouldn't. I like doing my own thing and I need my privacy.

No, not at all. There are plenty of aristocrat families with significant wealth who have endless opportunities, the lack of scrutiny to do whatever they like, with no requirement to politely make endless small talk and do any kind of work at all.

Agree that Zara has the best deal, Princess Anne definitely made the right choice for them.