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

Sorry, hide the odd paedophile and steal the estates of the dead who die intestate as well.

Actually the day is starting to fill up quite quickly.

I would be an exceptionally good Queen IMO. I care about people and causes and I like jewels and houses. I would work very hard and be very grateful for everything the heavens had chosen to bestow upon me.

I'd be less good at looking the part though as I struggle with my weight and we all know that the world doesn't like that much in a woman. I am always a bit surprised when people like me and want to be my friend so based on that I think I could be pleasingly cynical about hangers on who seem to glom on for their own gain.

No. I value my privacy

Wow, 1 in 5 mumsnetters would love to be queen 😱

I suspect looking good and controlling weight is easier if you have the money for all the right foods plus a chef to deliver them, a private gym and plenty of time to use it, lots of private land to go for walks/horse rides on etc etc though…

Absolutely not.

No, I’m not white, so it would mean being surrounded by racist family members that I have to pretend to like in public. I’m also incapable of controlling my facial expressions, so I’d be getting myself in trouble, especially when leaders of awful countries like Qatar came for a state visit.

No, a gilded cage is still a cage 🤷‍♀️

No. It seems a very miserable life not being able to properly make your own choices. Their lives seem pointless, they don’t/can’t really do much. I wouldn’t want to be so far removed from reality either. They’re utterly clueless.

God, no. Even just the requirement to dress in boring posh people's matchy-matchy clothing would make me want to die inside, let alone the rest of it. Plus a monarchy is just a fundamentally indefensible institution that I wouldn't want to be any part of.

Isn’t being a wage slave just a different kind if (ungilded) cage though? Is anyone really free to do exactly what they want?

Now I'm older and wiser and don't give a fig if people comment on my appearance I'd jump at the chance to be Queen. No money worries ever, fancy clothes, never having to cook, clean the toilet, go to Tesco, find a parking space, wait for a bus ever again.

But I wouldn't want my kids involved unless they actively chose it for themselves, so on balance probably not. I feel so much for their children

My youngest is only 10 so ask me again in 10 years and I'll say yes.

I can see the logic in this. When I'm elderly and therefore no longer expected to provide heirs or look beautiful, I think I would actually be willing to marry in just for the healthcare.

No

I cant understand how any woman could marry into that knowing that they will be bringing children into a life where they are indoctrinated for a future role from birth.

https://people.com/royals/queen-elizabeth-prince-charles-prince-william-prince-george-prepare-christmas-pudding/

I don’t think the role is pointless but I wouldn’t want to do it. I don’t think I work more or less hard in my day job than the senior royals do but I don’t think living in a palace would be worth the constant scrutiny or level of expectation.

Definitely not. Looks awful

I'm black, so they'd definitely not want me near them unless I was doing something useful like scrubbing the toilets or providing a photo opportunity to prove just how some of their best servants are black.

I'm OK dealing with low key racism and micro aggressions in daily life. Having death threats against my child dismissed because, what do you expectations, as yet another person is jailed for planning to harm my family or dealing with firm staff who can't cope with the idea of serving a black woman is where I'd draw the line.

Bad enough people denying documented racism exists without being expected to convince the commonwealth and bme people of the UK that race makes no difference at all. You can work hard and be valued, even in this most undiverse of environment that exempts themselves from the Equality Act while you're having a target painted on your back.

To echo others I like Anne, I think she played her cards well and it’s paid dividends to her descendants. I wouldn’t mind Zara’s life at all (although Mike wouldn’t have been my first choice personally). I wouldn’t mind being a minor royal, or a wealthy distant aristo relation, that sounds swell! But I would absolutely keep my bog-standard life rather than be a daughter of odious Andrew or be any of the main royals in the direct firing line. Yes they are fabulously wealthy but I would absolutely hate to be Kate or Megan or Camilla. Obviously Diana’s life hardly seems enviable in retrospect. No wonder Charles and his sons had trouble finding a wife, William and Harry couldn’t find an aristo who’d have them, why on earth would you enter into such a thing if you already had wealth. Charles had to essentially have an arranged marriage with the most naive young girl they could find.

I don't think it has to lack purpose. There's potential for good. Would I sign up for it? Not a hope. Who needs the hassle and drama. There are well paid jobs that don't demand public scrutiny.

No way! My ideA of hell. Tbh I think the rf needs to change as it has no meaning now the queen has died.

I'd keep the Gloucesters too. Not so sure about the Kents - think they might have retired from royal duties anyway.

The Gloucesters plod away doing all the unglamorous stuff. They came to DDs' school and were lovely.

No. Your life wouldn't be your own and you'd be living in a gilded cage. I wouldn't want that life.

I'm not poised or calm enough and I'd be a nightmare for the royals anyway. If the press were following me I'd be so pissed off and it'd be evident.

I’m half indian and I have had to deal with my racist in laws.

Even down to them speculating over what colour my children’s skin would be when I was pregnant, like Harry said his family did.

If I had a silk pillowcase in a castle to cry about it on and no money worries, it would have been easier to deal with.

What on earth do you do that isn’t harder work than most (if not all) the royals? I want your job.

You can leave, like the queen's uncle did. And if you leave you still have all the money. I'd just do that.