It is a pretty big issue that she doesn’t have any beloved children.
What else can they rely on? They serve no real function.
As much as it upsets some people it’s a fair bet that once Queen Elizabeth passes away places like Australia and Canada will start to move towards dropping the British monarch as head of state.
Ireland has shown how it can be done with a figurehead president.
Can’t remember who said it, but someone said or wrote recently that many people who currently think of themselves as being monarchists are actually “Elizabethans”.
And that come her death, the popularity of the monarchy is going to be affected by this.
I know it’s only a sample of one, but I have a friend who’s quite senior in an organisation whose name begins “Royal…” and for years he’s been in institutional lockstep with the whole shebang. But the last time I met him in person and after we’d had a few drinks, he told me unprompted that when ERII dies we really should be looking to bring the whole thing to a close. Coming from him, it rendered me speechless.
I suspect we are going to find quite a few Elizabethans in the near future, unwilling to see the institution in the hands of lesser mortals.
I still find it weird how they all dress up as military officers whilst wearing medals given to them by their nan. It reminds me of grown men wearing replica championship belts at wrestling shows.
Just my opinion but I think there is a lot of countries out there just waiting for her to pass and abolish the monarchy, and who can blame them who wants prince charles as head of state?
To get a bit more prestige for the whole family, cut out a certain Duke of York, strip him of that title. The Royal family is suppose to represent the nation, acting like that is intolerable, go make him live in the East Ends and forget about him, He deserves no luxury.
Once Queen is gone just call a day on the whole thing. Harry can become a TV presenter and the bald one can work at lidl
It’s time is up I suspect even in the 50s it felt a little silly having a new queen but the timing with post war hangovers etc they didn’t particularly focus on it. Now the public voice is louder than ever and with so many media sources the reverence is thankfully not there.
For the vast majority of the country the Queen has been there since birth. For others they’ll remember Prince Charles as a geeky young man. Hardly the same thing is it.
The British monarchy cannot rely on the prestige of the Queen ~~indefinitely~~ much longer.
With Andrew, Charles, William and Harry all having had at least some of their personal lives played out in the open for the media, the public has been able to peak behind the royal curtain a bit and not liked what they have seen as much. One thing the Queen has done is avoid having her own personal life splashed out in the tabloids enough for people to still see her positively, with the media effort after Diana died really helping change her image for the better. With the lesser royals not having had the same luck, only undoing the work the Queen has put into making the royal family seem good, crisis talks will be needed once she dies.
I’m not a monarchist by any means. Still admire the Queen but more due to her long and illustrious ‘career’ as the Queen, probably a bit of nostalgia in there too. Better if the whole royal system didn’t exist IMO, but she’s not done bad playing her part in it.
Not a fan of her family though. I guess that’s the nature of the family business; you get a cream of the crop like wor Lizzie who keeps it going for ages and makes everyone else look like shit. They can’t sustainably rest on *her* laurels, so they do what they can with what they have (like Charles) or say fuck it all and become sweaty nonses.
They might have muddled through it wasn’t for the Puppeteer Prince but this whole scandal put a pretty large nail in the coffin of the monarchy.
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It is a pretty big issue that she doesn’t have any beloved children.
What else can they rely on? They serve no real function.
As much as it upsets some people it’s a fair bet that once Queen Elizabeth passes away places like Australia and Canada will start to move towards dropping the British monarch as head of state.
Ireland has shown how it can be done with a figurehead president.
Can’t remember who said it, but someone said or wrote recently that many people who currently think of themselves as being monarchists are actually “Elizabethans”.
And that come her death, the popularity of the monarchy is going to be affected by this.
I know it’s only a sample of one, but I have a friend who’s quite senior in an organisation whose name begins “Royal…” and for years he’s been in institutional lockstep with the whole shebang. But the last time I met him in person and after we’d had a few drinks, he told me unprompted that when ERII dies we really should be looking to bring the whole thing to a close. Coming from him, it rendered me speechless.
I suspect we are going to find quite a few Elizabethans in the near future, unwilling to see the institution in the hands of lesser mortals.
I still find it weird how they all dress up as military officers whilst wearing medals given to them by their nan. It reminds me of grown men wearing replica championship belts at wrestling shows.
Just my opinion but I think there is a lot of countries out there just waiting for her to pass and abolish the monarchy, and who can blame them who wants prince charles as head of state?
To get a bit more prestige for the whole family, cut out a certain Duke of York, strip him of that title. The Royal family is suppose to represent the nation, acting like that is intolerable, go make him live in the East Ends and forget about him, He deserves no luxury.
Once Queen is gone just call a day on the whole thing. Harry can become a TV presenter and the bald one can work at lidl
It’s time is up I suspect even in the 50s it felt a little silly having a new queen but the timing with post war hangovers etc they didn’t particularly focus on it. Now the public voice is louder than ever and with so many media sources the reverence is thankfully not there.
For the vast majority of the country the Queen has been there since birth. For others they’ll remember Prince Charles as a geeky young man. Hardly the same thing is it.
The British monarchy cannot rely on the prestige of the Queen ~~indefinitely~~ much longer.
With Andrew, Charles, William and Harry all having had at least some of their personal lives played out in the open for the media, the public has been able to peak behind the royal curtain a bit and not liked what they have seen as much. One thing the Queen has done is avoid having her own personal life splashed out in the tabloids enough for people to still see her positively, with the media effort after Diana died really helping change her image for the better. With the lesser royals not having had the same luck, only undoing the work the Queen has put into making the royal family seem good, crisis talks will be needed once she dies.
I’m not a monarchist by any means. Still admire the Queen but more due to her long and illustrious ‘career’ as the Queen, probably a bit of nostalgia in there too. Better if the whole royal system didn’t exist IMO, but she’s not done bad playing her part in it.
Not a fan of her family though. I guess that’s the nature of the family business; you get a cream of the crop like wor Lizzie who keeps it going for ages and makes everyone else look like shit. They can’t sustainably rest on *her* laurels, so they do what they can with what they have (like Charles) or say fuck it all and become sweaty nonses.
They might have muddled through it wasn’t for the Puppeteer Prince but this whole scandal put a pretty large nail in the coffin of the monarchy.