Do you want a "Meddling Prince" or do you just want him to be silenced?

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Does he really have a valet to tuck in his teddy bear? And does he really have a teddy bear?

Are they allowed to vote?

If he speaks he's damned... if he doesn't he's damned!

I think that if we do have to put up with a constitutional sodding monarch, he should shut the f*ck up and not try and intervene. His job is not to govern. He is trying to be an Actual Monarch. If he wants to get involved in politics, he should do what Tony Benn did: resign from the aristocracy and stand for Parliament.

But frankly, speaking as someone normally opposed to violence, I think we should line the whole damn royal family up against a wall.

If their job is not to govern then why keep them? It can't be just for the tourist?

LOL MI.

Nearlythree, I feel very sorry for him re the restrictions that were (allegedly) placed on who he married, but to my mind this is another argument for not having a monarchy at all - it is unfair on the people who are born into it just as it's unfair on the rest of us having to put up with people we didn't elect.

And of course he can have opinions, but he doesn't have to use his unelected position to pursue his own agendas. He always has the option of doing a Tony Benn, as MI suggests.

They are all, without exception, quite appalling and should be got rid of pronto instead of living it up on my bloody money.

I love you, Mother, and want to have your inferiorettes!

Up the Revolution!

Mb, you are presumably just old enough to remember the Investiture? The whole of the valleys went wild as far as I could see- my granny's neighbour painted a huge indelible dragon complete with fleur-de-lys on the end wall of the terrace. Lovely.

yes, I agree, pointless, all of them.

Why exactly do we still have a Royal Family??

TBH Tamum, I think that is probably what convinced me that I should be a republican.

We stood in the farking rain, wind blowing a gale, for what seemed like hours, singing 'God Bless the Prince of Wales'. He drove past us at about 190mph in about a nano second.

Bastard!

Scarred for life I was!

one of our so called Royals isn't even a Royal according to the rumours

I think he should speak out , he needs to speak out for all people and just to promote his interests. He could do so much good but in my opinion does little for the disenfranchiesed or those who have a low household income and want to be green/ organically minded or indeed just want to improve their overal standard of living

Was he in a small, modest, environmentally friendly car Martianbishop?

I think not!

a big, 'fuck off an die you poor peasants' Daimler, IIRC!

I want him to go on The Apprentice so Alan Sugar can tell him he's fired.

MB a bit like when we saw his mum in 77
enough to put you off for life

PMSL Scummy.

I wonder how he'd manage, running a business that actually had to pay tax like everybody else

PC actually makes my blood boil even more than any of the other lot, because a surprising number of people condone his abuse of his position because some of the views he express overlap with views they hold themselves.

He makes me - just in case you hadn't realised - quite incandescent with trage.

Thats you MI, it is!

Oh I know MI.
The annoying thing is he's turned out to be right about some of the stuff he's been going on about for years (superiority of traditional farming methods for instance) so now he'll just be even more convinced he's right about everything else, as well.

I had a feeling you might have had an experience like that mb We were made to go and watch it on TV in the dining hall even though I was at school in Nottinghamshire at the time. Formative experiences, as you say.

Divine bloody right of kings, that's what he thinks he has. Seriously.

He is a bananahead for sure, MI.

Or maybe Anne Robinson can say to him "Chazzer- You are the weakest link- byebye."

I like the idea of him being deposed in a public popular-kulture type tv show for some reason.

I'm a Celebrity has a certain appeal, now you come to mention it...