Have you lost faith/trust in the royal family?

[DistinguishedSocialCommentator]

Recent events

AIBU to lose faith and trust in what we get to hear about the royal family?

What would restore your faith in the royal family?

A very reasonable question, Roussette, and perhaps just another reason why few with integrity would even want to be an MP

I'm another who never had any faith/trust in them to lose, though I can admire (or not) individuals for making a better or worse fist of the job
On the whole though I just want the whole institution gone and replaced by an elected Head of State, even though I doubt it'll happen in my lifetime

@FlatWhiteLover "Since then they have slaved away at the unglamorous engagements without much fanfare and managed to have a long successful marriage."

Learned from their mistakes or accepted an ultimatum. Who knows??

@Roussette "wby don't they swear allegiance to the people, not to someone we didn't choose and. can't vote out"

Or they could do what my ds did enrolling in the Scouts- he said god and whispered Darwin under his breath!

Awww bless him! 😅

Really???

I've personally never felt "lorded over". How utterly quaint and faintly ridiculous.

Either way, what does it matter?! End effect is the same.

Never had any to lose!

'The Firm' is a very powerful operation, and generally it's unwise to trust any such organisation. They don't care about me so I don't see why I should care about them. The monarchy will limp on, don't doubt it, but maybe this will be the beginning on a more slimmed-down, low-profile royalty, which would be a good thing.

!00% this! They did not get "hounded out of the country! They flounced when they didn't get their own way and have been taking revenge ever since!

This is not lording it over us plebs?

"Respect" for a pair of grifters that took the hump and flounced when they didn't get their own way? "Respect" for a woman who has managed to alienate both hers and her husband's families? For a man who wrote so eloquently about his "todger" and makes a living trashing his family?

Do me a favour!!!

Nope, it's them performing a ceremonial role to a huge audience who have chosen to be there to see them.

Maybe they'd rather be putting their feet up with a nice cuppa or a g'n't?

You can control your own feelings, you know. I do not feel "lorded over" one bit.

Thank god for a voice of reason in the middle of the madness!

I completely agree with you @CoffeeCantata.

Me too.

My, you're quite the rebel aren't you?!!

I've felt a lot more lorded over by those two snobby daughters of EG's (local person) than by the Royal Family. Those two really did think that I was/am something of a lesser species, and they don't have titles, except for Mrs, but their Dad had more money than mine so they thought themselves something.

When people accuse members of the Royal Family of 'setting themselves up' or 'lording over' I think that they are using boring old cliches for a start, and that given half a chance and a few pounds in their pockets it is THEY, the accusers, who would be far more likely to 'lord it' and 'set themselves up'.

I would put an acute accent on the e of cliche, if I knew how to with this keyboard. It annoys me that I don't know how. If I were handwriting I would easily have the accent in the right place in a trice.

Beats me why anyone would care about or defend any of them.

Tolerating them is non negotiable, there's nothing we can do, they are going nowhere, but as for anything else, that's a no from me. Like celebrities and their shenanigans, lip boob etc. fillers and whatnot, their only claim to fame and fortune is gossip, oh and being born I suppose.

What did the Romans RF do for me? I'll tell you what, nothing, zilch, nada so they can all go ahead and live in their McMansions and give the Royal wave to their subjects peasants outside the castle walls. For that is where we shall remain!

My friend said that she and I were the last of the peasants. She said it because we had countryside roots. She didn't exactly say it in a spirit of swankiness but she didn't see it as anything bad. She was gently laughing at the people who pull the word out as if it's an insult. The word 'peasant' tends to be used in England at least as a kind of sneer, by people of all classes.

I think that QE2 and the King and Prince William deal with people on the estates directly sometimes, as well as long-distance through estate managers. I imagine that if a Norfolk 'peasant' spoke in an unpolished way but knew his job well they would be more likely to have considerable respect for him than look down on him.

What word describes those not of Royal descent then? Citizens?, no we are Subjects. We all know what the pejorative term is for those of us not born into the Family, and it is not Royal - it is peasant.

Paysan(ne) en Francais, person of the fields, outside the walls. That is where we are kept with the odd glimpse now and then of them zooming past or gracing us with a Royal wave. You know a supercilious nod to the peasant class when you see one. We who are not of Royal blood or descended from the d'Urbervilles are peasants.

The “American gutter press” doesn’t hold a candle to the British gutter press, @DistinguishedSocialCommentator.
As distinguished as you are, surely you could distinguish between the two.

Andrew is an odious and pompous creep! I also found it bizarre when the Queen died and the family members were at the gates that he put his hands together in a supplicant way and was bowing to thank the mourners. He just had to be the one to stand out like that. For me, he is the poster child for all that is wrong with the titled and entitled way of life.

Why would you trust them, for what? Until recently (last 100 or so years) they've basically a family who have been taking from the peasants? As well as other countries.

This is a zombie thread, but hey...

I'm a mild royalist but I don't know what is meant by 'trust in the RF'. They do the job assigned to them by the British Constitution very well indeed, they smile and nod in the right places and don't mess up at ceremonial events. I don't get what trust has to do with any of it. I don't expect to have a personal relationship with any of them.

I wouldn't trust the Sussexes an inch, though. And if anyone moans 'Why bring them into it?', well - the only royals who've betrayed anyone's trust are H & M. Andrew is clearly beyond the pale, but I don't think anyone (esp the RF) would argue with that.

I never had any trust or faith in them to start with, so none to lose.