The British monarchy?

Question

why do people want to abolish the british monarchy its not as if they are opressing us they dont really do anything bad. dont say that its becuase there expensive life style is payed for by our money so what it is only a few pounds and think if we got rid of them what would we be famous for are golden age is gone there is not much we are famous for. so i think we should keep them do you

Answer 1

The answerer above me had better do some serious reading before he starts citing his so-called "facts".

In 2002-03 the Crown Estate paid the Treasury £170.8 million, in return for an allowance of £7.9 million.) In 2005 the Civil List amounted to £11.2m. Only The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh receive funding from the Civil List. The Queen reimburses the annual parliamentary allowances received by other members of the Royal Family. The civil list includes traveling expenses. The Royal Family also pay very hefty taxes to the Treasury.

You would rather have some money-grubbing politician and his cronies? A president would cost every bit as much, and there would be no revenue returned to the state. You would also have to pay the pensions of all the ex-presidents and their secret service protection etc. So if you dethroned the monarchy, you would be paying a h*ll of a lot more taxes than you are now.

And as for your self-righteous morals - "Let he who is without sin, cast the first stone".

Answer 2

The royals have one hand over every brits mouth, the other hand in every brits pocket. Thats what no effort is dared to be started to abolish the monarchy. The royals enforce their power to ostracize thru their wealth and status, and do so ruthlessly. This will be forever, until the brits see truth thru UN-brainwashed eyes and minds. The brit system is engineered to make brits think from childhood that the royal system is necessary for britain. That stuff that they come up with that the royals bring in more money than they take from the brits is nonsense - all the junk thats sold with their pictures etc. on it, has money earmarked to the royals themselves.

Answer 3

We live in free countries through the monarchy system and I am happy to stay with it. If you think about those who would change everything it is a frightening prospect to have those people at our constitutions with attitudes of whats in it for them ~~

Answer 4

First of all, learn the facts. The British monarchy as we know it comes from old German aristocratic families, so it's not British at all. They have only changed their surnames to Windsor during the First World War to try and differentiate themselves from Germans killing British soldiers at the Western Front in their hundreds of thousands (the first Monarch to assume the surname "Windsor " was King George V in 1917). Before the Second World War, the Royal Family felt huge sympathies to Nazis, with Edward VIII (who was to become the King if he had not wanted to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson instead) visiting Germany often to talk to various Nazi leaders. There was the expectation, that should Nazis defeat and occupy Britain in the Second World War, Edward VIII would return from his exile and become a puppet king doing his Nazi masters' bidding. Secondly, the Royal Family is supposed to be apolitical -- which has sometimes been violated. After then Prime Minister Chamberlain shamefully betrayed ally Czechoslovakia in Munich in 1938, he and his wife together with the Royal couple were celebrating on the balcony of the Buckingham Palace winning the "peace in our time" (which only lasted very shortly, until September 1939, when the Second World War started).

Thirdly, although they are human, the Royal Family are supposed to behave to a certain moral standard especially since the monarch is supposed to be the head of the Church of England (meaning no adultery, divorces, sordid sex lives such as Prince Charles being intercepted by journalists allegedly telling Camilla in a phone call that he wanted to be her tampon etc.). All those stories made Britain laughing stock of the world and brought the British into disrepute. If the Queen could not raise her children properly in line with Christian ethics and proper good values and morals, how on Earth can she expect to rule (although symbolically as a mere figurehead) the country?

Fourthly, what about their tax matters? They are obscenely rich - why are not they taxed equally and openly as anyone else in this country? Why there is one set of rules for the Royals and the other for mere subjects? (I would truly love to have such ridiculously tiny tax bill and a special treatment by the taxman as what they have).

Lastly, everybody knows that Royal Family are better at handling/coping with animals than they are at dealing with people. They are cold, snobbish, aloof, detached, insensitive (Prince Harry in a Nazi uniform at a party, or Prince Michael's children taking illegal recreational drugs at parties etc.), they are after guarding their own interest (Prince Harry being given a cushy job in an office somewhere in Canada, instead of being sent to serve in Iraq or Afghanistan with his unit), and ignorant (some of Prince Charles' comments are simply ill-informed and based on instincts/gut feeling rather than good science).

All those matters do not particularly endear them to many people of this country, and it would be better if they either reformed and became more like normal/hard working and much more beloved Scandinavian/Dutch/Belgian Royal families (i.e., almost one of the people), or if Britain was declared a Republic.

Answer 5

They are just sick of seeing them in the tabloids and they are also very jealous.