The Royal Family is incredibly dysfunctional

[babsanderson]

They are an incredibly dysfunctional family with lots of internal rivalries, poor parenting and a strange culture of stay silent and we will protect you from actual crimes, but speak out and we will destroy you.
They really are a mess and I suspect they are so dysfunctional, they do not realise just how messed up the family dynamics are.
But maybe such a dysfunctional family is inevitable within a hereditary monarchy where your accident of birth means you have access to more money and power than your siblings and other close relatives?

For a family that is a reality show on steroids I think they aren’t doing to bad. Many of the dramas except Andrew and Diana death are run of the mill family crap. Divorces, fall outs, arguing.

@Boulshired Accepting a million in cash in a suitcase for your charity?
Your sister having an affair with a man married to the woman who will become your stepmother - that is a plot twist worthy of Eastenders.
Charles defending paedophile Peter Ball.

This is not ordinary family dysfunction. Divorces, fall outs are ordinary.

Do you think all that’s true of Zara & Mike and their children, Beatrice & Eugenie and their husbands and children, Edward & Sophie and their children, Peter & his children, Anne, Catherine & William and their children?

@HeddaGarbled We are told almost nothing of the more minor family members so I have no idea. I do not even know the names of Zara's children.
But the main Royal Family members we hear a lot about.

If you included all branches of what was until recently a three generational rather extended family then yes but in small ways such as tax dodging, affairs, evil stepmums. I’d made an exception for Andrew but unfortunately even in families the do stick be even when the shouldn’t .

Should be 4 generational

Your sister having an affair with a man married to the woman who will become your stepmother

Who is this , I can't work it out !

Hang on......."Your sister having an affair with a man married to the woman who will become your stepmother - that is a plot twist worthy of Eastenders."
Who does this refer to?
I love a bit of royal smut, me!

The Pope is also a Catholic.

@Ohgodthepain Anne had an affair with Andrew Parker Bowles.
Camilla's first husband was Andrew Parker Bowles.

Massively dysfunctional. Harry finally saw that, I think, when Meghan joined and was treated badly by them.

I don’t see anything particularly unusual about what happened with Harry and Meghan actually: man from dysfunctional family falls in love, family rejects his partner, drama ensues, couple distance themselves from the family as a result. Pretty standard when you think about it.

I hope the monarchy gets abolished soon. They’re dreadful.

Sorry! It should say -
"Your sister having an affair with a man married to the woman who will become your wife - that is a plot twist worthy of Eastenders."

Anne had an affair with Andrew Parker Bowles.
Camilla's first husband was Andrew Parker Bowles. But Camilla is Charles' wife not his step mother!

We are told almost nothing

You’re not being kept in the dark deliberately. Ignorance is a choice.

If you look closely enough the majority of normal families are dysfunctional too. I doubt any of us would stand up to the intense scrutiny they are getting regarding parenting, inlaws and marriages.

@Pixiedust1234 My family are much more functional than the Royal Family. Sure there are fall outs, and the odd divorce - although very few - but nothing else. I am sure there will be affairs I know nothing about, but I am pretty sure if there are any affairs the people involved are not intertwined.

Not in my family but I know of affairs when the other person has been a sibling. I have a first cousin relationship in my family. 20 doors down there’s a convicted sex offender living back with his wife.

Anne had an affair with Andrew Parker Bowles

Not quite. Did you get that from the Crown but not understand it?

The RF is pretty sedate and functional compared to my family and my DH’s family. They only seem extra dysfunctional because they’re living in a goldfish bowl, every other family has closets for their skeletons.

A lot of families are dysfunctional

I hope I live to see the Monarchy abolished, incredibly embarrassing for the UK that we have them and people are deferential to them

? It’s actually one of the things other countries envy us for having.

No more than many families

Grow up

@Onnabugeisha I am so sorry to hear that about your family.

No one in my family has ever defended a paedophile like Charles did with Peter Ball. No one has been involved in dodgy dealings. No one has been accused of raping a sex trafficked teenager, no one has had a paedophile giving a couple marriage guidance.