The Royals jumping ship...

[Wolfgirrl]

A virus pandemic breaks out in the UK. Everyone is essentially on house arrest bar a few essential occasions. Businesses and workers facing going bust. People dying every day. Hospitals overwhelmed. Surely this would be a great moment for a morale boosting message from our beloved royals, who we pay to keep in the lap of luxury? Oh wait, a little recorded message has been deemed a health risk to the Queen (allegedly).

Oh well, they can always volunteer Buckingham Palace as a makeshift hospital or hub for supplies, etc, as I'm sure they want to do what they can for their beloved citizens, especially now theyve legged it out of London. Oh wait.

Seriously what are these people for and why do we pay for them again?

Buckingham palace, the symbol of their status and wealth, fill Buckingham palace with infectious peasants😳
can you imagine the look on the queen's face, can you imagine how soiled she would feel by such proximity to hordes of lower beings😳

Oh the horror, she’d never step foot in it again.

Still pushing an 83 year old woman to work OP?

The queens 92, but no ones forcing her to “work”. Time she stepped down, but let’s face it, the fact she hasn’t shows us that what she does in no way is physically demanding. She has several hundred servants. Stop calling it bloody work ffs.

@Fatasfooook

Shes 93.

What work is she being forced to do?

Shouldn't the head of state work?

Ironically it’s royaliste forcing her to work. Any other job she’d have retired thirty years ago.

Perhaps they should all be picking fruit for minimum wage and then at the end of a 12-hour working day have to self isolating in a caravan with no running water
Then we could all see how much grit they've got, I'm sure that would raise their popularity in the eyes of the public😊

What work is she being forced to do?

Smiling and waving at peasants is terribly exhausting don't you know

I think she had to hold a phone.

Although really she’s had a good stretch and put on a good show, I don’t think it’s worth going on with it though.

"Ironically it’s royaliste forcing her to work. Any other job she’d have retired thirty years ago."

She could quit tomorrow. It's called 'Abdication'.

If shes really not up to doing anything at this time.e, she should have abdicated just as many of the very elderly monarchs around the world have done. Its embarrassing having a 71 year old waiting around for so long to be King.

Yep, I’d she is too old to deal with duties, she should abdicate.

She doesn’t feel the need to quit, not for any loyalty to the country nonsense that the royalists always spout, , but because it’s such a wonderful life as queen. Not a single hardship has she had to endure. Wonder what she thinks about Andrews shenanigans. Must be so proud.

She also doesn’t seem to care that her eldest, who’s been groomed all his life to be king is still hanging around waiting. In a way I feel sorry for him, it’s a life he’s had thrust on him. I’m sick of people going on about how hard working/ what other 92 year old could do what she does rubbish. She doesn’t HAVE to do it ffs.

I’m not a royalist, far far from it, but give your son a go at what he’s been waiting all his life for, he’s 72 year old for Gods sake.

Former Irish heads of state are pensioned off for forty years - these two retired in their fifties;

"2013 FORMER president Mary McAleese retired with an annual pension of €141,000 and did not gift any back to the taxpayer, new figures reveal."

"And her predecessor, Mary Robinson, is drawing down a pension of €134,883 pension, according to the latest Department of Finance accounts."

www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/mcaleese-kept-all-of-her-141k-pension-29617049.html

A seven year old article. At the bottom of which

"The accounts also show former Comptroller and Auditors General John Buckley and PL McDonnell get pensions of €112,361 a year."

So the Irish President's pension is not that far out of line with other senior Irish civil servants' pensions.

You might argue that civil servants as a whole get too large a pension and I might be inclined to agree with you, but selecting out the headline number without placing it any context is just shoddy 'people don't read beyond the headline', Daily Mail type argument.

Yesterday - Your posts do give me a good laugh, you talk a load of bollocks. You don't know anything about our history, the monarchy, the Queen etc do you ?

I’m not a royalist, far far from it, but give your son a go at what he’s been waiting all his life for, he’s 72 year old for Gods sake

It was the historian A. N. Wilson who wrote that "the biggest threat to the existence of the House of Windsor is the existence of Prince Charles", and as a republican I admit that the idea of Charles on the throne suits me just fine

However, remembering that the Queen (who is committed to the monarchy) had to step in to secure the future Commonwealth job for him, it may be that she's less confident than some of his future success. It might even explain why she had William over for tea and some Queenly guidance when he was at Eton, rather than risk it all coming from his father

@Mamamia456 care to enlighten us, and then tell us why it is relevant to the topic here?

Wonder what she thinks about Andrews shenanigans. Must be so proud.

She's shown us exactly what she thinks of his antics. She was horse riding in Windsor with him in an area she knew they'd be papped a few days after he was retired from public duties and he was riding shotgun in her car on a church visit no so long ago. It's can't be coincidence that he hasn't been required to co-operate with US inquiries by now either.

Repeated two fingers to the peasants.

Alex Salmond was cleared of all sexual assault charges - I assumed he was guilty - apparently not.

Wolfgirrl - Read yesterday's last post.

Alex Salmond was cleared of all sexual assault charges - I assumed he was guilty - apparently not.

Alex Salmond submitted to, and went through, a fair trial process. Tell me about when one of the royals has done this please?

Interesting point, Wolfgirrl - though actually, in the absence of the promised co-operation with the authorities, some of us are focusing for now on Andrew's association with, and support for, a known paedophile

You know, just like his older brother ...