Unpopular opinions about the royal family

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I am just interested to see your opinions about the royal family. No judgement. And it can be from any royal family, not just the British one.

This with knobs on.

Ok so we're not losing the Monarchy but I seriously think A LOT has to change and it doesn't bode well for Charles',s reign, he's too ensconced in cover ups and dodgy dealings.
It's going to be a free for all when the queen goes.

Things HAVE to change drastically if the monarchy is to survive. It's an archaic entitled institution that will be open to ridicule if they don't get their act together

Can William abdicate his whole family, while the kids are minors?

Or is George stuck with it till he is 18 and can choose for himself?

Exactly this.

I'm glad you agree, Roussette. I absolutely concur with your points and in my opinion she should have resigned.

“And there's something about Edward they're not telling us.”

I thought Edward was gaining respect for being hardworking, and going about his business well.

Anyone older knows the truth about Edward.

Well I’m older and only know of him leaving the Marines during his basic training because he didn’t like the brutality. I do suspect however that there are those who probably made it out to be something else entirely.

@NanaNelly There was a lot of press coverage at the time about Edward and various incidents. Since you can not get back copies of newspapers to that time without paying, I can not link any of them.

Really ? I am pretty ancient , have always been interested in the RF and have no idea what you are on about .

Unfortunately it will just be deleted without a source link which I will not pay for.

Ok , well I will just disregard your assertion

German inbreds at the top of the parasitic tree that is the English class system.

Getting rid of them wouldn't solve everything but it would be a start.

We can still have tourists. The French cut all of their heads off and loads of people still visit Versailles.

She shouldve quietly resigned. Not fair I know, but the daughters begging for the father to re-enter royal duties, means to me they really have not got a clue about the enormity of what he has done in his support of two sex traffickers

Agree entirely but also unsurprised when the royals as a whole seem to have had the optics gene pass them by.

I don't want to cut their heads off (!).

A quiet retreat into an obscure country life would do me but I agree entirely about Versailles. If we opened up the royal residences I reckon we'd really see the much vaunted yet tantalisingly unprovable tourist $$$ pouring in.

I’m second/third generation immigrant. I count myself as British as well as Greek. The RF have been in the U.K. since the 1700’s. How many generations does it have to be before myself & other immigrants are accepted?

Im also interested in the RF, quite a bit interested actually, and I can’t recall anything either apart from him being a bit of a gentle soul who liked amateur dramatics and would have liked a career in the Theatre. The Marines were never for him and he left because he couldn’t stand the brutality involved n the training.

Dunno. I'm not English myself.

@CathyorClaire I don't want to cut their heads off either - really CBA.

But my point is even countries that have cut off royals' heads have flourishing tourist attractions based around royalty. So they're not necessary for that.

I find it so difficult to respect anyone who I'm told I should respect simply because of the family they were born into.
Like most people, the Queen was Queen when I was born and has been Queen all of my life. Because she's always been the Queen I find it easy to like and respect her in that role. Same with Charles. As I've grown up I've always thought of him as King-to-be and I think he'll do a good job and in particular will do good work on environmental causes.
William is a fair bit younger than me and so I find it difficult to think of him in the same way as them. No way on earth could I imagine courtesying to young George.

Anyone older knows the truth about Edward

I'm old but I don't know what you're talking about. Can you be more explicit?

I'm older than Edward and apart from some totally unproven gossip about his (possible) sexual orientation, based on little more than him leaving the Marines and liking the theatre as far as I can see, no can't remember anything either. No idea about the "various incidents" you mention and as this was pre internet, it was clearly public domain.

Oh I had a thought. If it's "being a bit petulant at the press conference after It's a Royal Knockout" give up. Hardly the Princes in the Tower or beheading a couple of wives, is it?

Sorry, but the unremitting sniping at everyone who isn't Harry or Meghan is tiresome, @antelopevalley

www.ibtimes.com/prince-edward-bisexual-spotted-making-out-another-boy-netizens-discuss-2867712

www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-04-10-vw-1336-story.html

eu.southcoasttoday.com/story/opinion/1999/01/27/sexual-politics-at-buckingham-palace/50540295007/

It is not sniping at all.

Yeah he's definitely gay, his wife is a beard, also they both are partial to a bit of palm greasing. This is well known.

At least he's not a nonce like his brother though.

Or a .. what would you even call Charles? A red faced philandering clown past retirement age, who has never actually done the job that god supposedly marked him for but will do it some day along with the woman he cheated on his wife with. That's the guy who gets to be in charge of our country? I don't think so.