What Australian women think about the royal family

[AcrossTheGrain]

I fell down a rabbit hole on an Australian women's forum last night and ended up reading pages of a long-running royal thread. It was honestly quite something seeing how the RF looks from that far away.

They go from talking about velvet dresses and very over-the-top earrings to being incredibly blunt about Charles, the Duchies, Andrew, and the money side of things. No dancing around it at all - they just say exactly what they think.
There’s a bit of NHS talk too, more in a “how does this all appear from the outside?” way, especially when the health system here is struggling while the monarchy still looks so well funded.

Plenty of strong views on William/Kate vs Harry/Meghan as well - it seems to be a full contact sport over there too.

If anyone wants a look, this is the page I landed on.

Made me wonder if Australians are just saying out loud what a lot of people here think but don’t quite say.

Absolutely. Living the dream.

Men have done this and continue to do this without any censure or repercussions, I say good for her!

She was an inveterate snob who behaved as she liked because she could IMO.

Rightly or wrongly she'd have been pilloried in the press today and even presented as the royal fall guy we've been conditioned to seeing over the past twenty odd years deflecting attention from other instances of poor royal behaviour.

Certainly she'd have been subjected to a lot less deference and a lot more scrutiny. Maybe even another candidate whose titles hang by a thread 😬

Depends of the generation or social group. But in general, negative to indiffent imo