Trooping the colour booing

[theresalighttofindyou]

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

A member of this group Republic asked Charles about Andrew. Not long after Charles made the big Mountbatten-Windsor statement. If the Royals only surround themselves with sycophants they will never know what the public feel about the monarchy paying an enormous sum to Virginia Giuffre, sitting on the Epstein emails for 6 years, etc. The Not My King movement is entirely peaceful and just chant and hold up banners. They are repeatedly moved and shut down by the police.

Do you believe in freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, what say you?

No one was shouting abuse directly at the children.

I thought it was marvellous. I’d not do it as I’m largely too ambivalent to protest, much as I’m a republican and hate the lot of them. I thought it was great their voices were really heard this time. The utter ludicrousness of these people parading through the streets in carriages. Bring on the boos!

You are really comparing a rich upper class privileged family with institutional organisations? OK.

I would love the privilege of not paying IHT, if nothing else!

Booing republicans remind me of those insufferable people who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing. YABU,

I believe it has historical roots

There is something queasy about them being trotted out for the great unwashed to bow and scrape to.

I thought Kate glowering was actually the single most interesting thing she’s done since she joined that pointless lot.

She’s usually so Stepford, it was nice to see.

That doesn’t make it any better.

You're right. If I saw a vacancy for a Royal Prince, I wouldn't be at all interested. Free money, lavish housing, endless holidays, and waited on hand and foot? Nah, not interested...

Yes, I am in favour of the Royals but do feel conflicted at times and I didn't agree with the booing. But it was probably a small number of people, if you consider how many people were there in the crowds.
I'm not sure about becoming a Republic though - who would be the head? We can't even find a PM or political party that we vote in who stays in favour with the public for very long.
Clearly some of the royals have used their position disgracefully and that's a difficult situation to recover from.
I think the Royals are trying to become a more modern version of themselves but it's not going to change overnight. The older generation seem to be the most patriotic and the most in favour of the Royals.
It will change within the next 50 year massively, I don't doubt that. But I'm not sure if it's going to make things better.

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What school charges hundreds of thousands a year ?

I'm not sure about becoming a Republic though - who would be the head? We can't even find a PM or political party that we vote in who stays in favour with the public for very long.

Other countries such as Ireland manage this perfectly well. Why wouldn’t we be able to?

It isn't a binary choice between a King or a Trump-like all powerful president. Other Republics have presidents who perform the same ceremonial duties as the royal family might, but without the ridiculousness. You already have a system of government.

Looks to me like she is respecting the protestors thoughts and just sitting still not waving, understanding they do not like royals so she just sits still and doesn't wave and the children follow suit.

She may also think what awful people boo children, entitled, uber posh ones or not?! An awful lot of her charity work is for children so she's probably also thinking wtf?

It must be absolutely terrifying being the mother of royals and going to these big events, I know there is security everywhere and in a million places we don't see or think about too, but it must be frightening knowing so many people hate you and your children's very existence, perhaps the glower you see is a little anxiety on her part of are these peaceful protesters with a right to their thoughts or are these machete wielding maniacs and will security get here in time if one of them turns violent?

I have looked at the footage and press reports again. It sounds as if Republic were holding up protests and chanting - the booing was the public booing them. The BBC says@

They were especially noisy as the royal carriage procession passed, shouting "Down with the Crown" and "You are not our King," and held up images of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
Some 12 protesters later stood in front of the palace balcony where the Royal Family stood for the flypast, shouting and holding a row of umbrellas on which the phrase "Stop the Reign" was written. They were booed by some in the crowd and moved back by police.
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Ive never been myself but does everyone watching have to bow and scrape ?

Billionaire descendants of cattle and land thieves.

@theresalighttofindyou well said!

William and Kate seem ok with letting their kids meet and speak to those very odd men who bring crappy Christmas gifts for them and hang around for the church parade every year. I wonder what they are taught in private about how to respond to such bizarre behaviour . Something along the lines of "See our lovely homes, our massive shiny cars, our glittering jewels, our beautiful lands and our gorgeous clothes, well, just grin at the mad people, it's a small price to pay"

Agree with all of this. It’s a shame the children were put into this situation but their parents chose to do that. The selfies at Christmas with random strangers was something that I was genuinely shocked at. Their kids should never have been put in that situation.

Yes, I think this is exactly the problem and why Harry, for instance, is so resentful but comes across so badly so often in his complaining. All their friends live equally easy, privileged lives, but aren't famous and don't have press intrusion. They live in a world where it is totally normal to be in your 40s and never had a 'real' job, because your job is a little bit at playing at managing your dad's money. To the royal family, comparing themselves to that, they think they have an outrageously bad deal. Obviously compared to actual hardship, or even just the normal trade-offs of a standard life, they live lives of incredible luxury, and actually incredible choice on a day-to-day basis.

Paying for travel and sitting on a sweaty train just to boo at an event on the weekend is a sad thing to do.

They aren’t paid to do that, don’t they have anything they’d rather do with their time? I can’t really get past why anyone would choose to do that.

If it's so easy, why did Diana and Meghan struggle so much? Why did Chelsy Davy decline to become a princess?

It's massively privileged, but it's also a goldfish bowl. Could you be perfectly polite and inoffensive and full of a million etiquette rules all the time, to zillions of people, no matter what you really think of them? While having no privacy, long lens cameras to sell shots of you all over the world, picking apart everything you wear and say and do? You couldn't even have this account on MN in case you got discovered.

I actually don't think I could do it. The wealth would only compensate to a certain level and while I'd love to be richer than I am, I don't think many people need that level of wealth to be happy.

Have come to the conclusion that this thread is about sowing dissent and division, with no-one actually coming up with any sensible alternative to a constitutional monarchy. “Starving children”. Oh come on. You’d get President Farage if we were a republic and frankly, I’d rather see Kate and her kids than Farage and Musk riding around in a gold carriage.

Being a fairly obscure royal? Something suitable removed from the throne / very far back in the line of succession?

So very little public interest, nice inheritance and known to the people who actually care? I can see the benefits.

But for those close to the throne? Children such as George, Charlotte and Louis? The drawbacks seem obvious to me as well. I don’t think they massively benefit, the cost seems to outweigh the overall benefits…