Do you think the £3,000,000 of tax payers' money we spent on security for princess Eugenie's wedding was good value?
See it like this: Our salaries are based on the income what we need to pay our bills and some other things that we do. The high incomers are just 10 or 20% and can be ignored as they get their income for different reasons.
An average employee has got a family with wife/husband and 2 children. One day, the employer asks the employee, "why do I pay you such high salary and you spend all the money on a wife/husband that doesn't work or is overspending, and on two kids, where the daughter/sun is a total failure and isn't capable of doing anything good".
I said it before, if you wish to understand, read the King's Two Bodies by Kantorowicz. I know it's hard stuff, not populistic, doesn't confirm your opinion, and requires that you break boundaries.
you didn't answer the question.
Do you think the £3,000,000 of tax payers' money we spent on security for princess Eugenie's wedding was good value? Do you support Andrew getting £249,000 of tax payers' money this year? Simple, yes or no answers. I'm off to work, something most royals don't do.
Do you think the £3,000,000 of tax payers' money we spent on security for princess Eugenie's wedding was good value? Do you support Andrew getting £249,000 of tax payers' money this year? Simple, yes or no answers. I'm off to work, something most royals don't do.
I had answered your question, but you didn’t see the context. We pay for the constitutional construct not to a particular person.
The personification of the monarchy is a new thinking of the modern world. It took jurists 600 years to define the political and personal nature of a king/queen.
Until now, other countries look envious to us because they haven’t been able to replace what they had, and it will take a few hundred years to come before the gap.
Absolutely agree @Simone_in_Wiltshire … it’s what I was saying earlier about the press and a lot of the public getting confused between the role and the personality.
It’s as if some folk regard being the monarch as some sort of reward that the present king hasn’t deserved 😵💫. That’s a total misunderstanding of the way the British Constitution has evolved.
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As for committing adultery, I rather feel that Charles and Diana were pushed into their situation by circumstance and pressure from the Palace, especially the Queen Mother who thought Charles should marry a virgin. Camilla was Charles's first love, actually his only real love. She supports him and is well matched to him which Diana wasn't. Charles should never have been pushed into marriage with Diana and poor, young Diana was a victim.
I am quite happy for Camilla to become Queen. I think they and several other members of the Royal Family, such as Princess Anne, work very hard for their money. Not a job I would want.
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As for adultery, People in glass house shouldn’t....... King Charles is not Head of the Church of England, he is defender of the faith. Something quite different.
This country is awash with money, £4.2billion given to Ukraine in a year, and many soldiers still here training, at who’s expense? (Not that I begrudge that, we wouldn’t get that money anyway). The money the royals bring in to this country will cover the expenses.
There was a meeting of all the commonwealth countries to see if Prince Charles could be missed and the crown go to Prince William, they all voted for Charles.
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Is that true? I thought 'defender of the faith' was a catholic term given initially to Henry VIII (edited to add II: by the pope of the time) - and I also thought that the monarchy became the head of the CofE - after its foundation.
Edited to add:
I am not a monarchist, but I think that the monarchy has evolved into being quite a good organisation that provides a 'consistent (ish)' head of state view. I personally prefer the current monarchy to the concept of an elected head of state.
'His Majesty the King
is the Supreme Governor of the Church of England. The King appoints
archbishops, bishops and deans of cathedrals on the advice of the Prime
Minister.'
Do you think the £3,000,000 of tax payers' money we spent on security for princess Eugenie's wedding was good value? Do you support Andrew getting £249,000 of tax payers' money this year? Simple, yes or no answers. I'm off to work, something most royals don't do.
I had answered your question, but you didn’t see the context. We pay for the constitutional construct not to a particular person.
The personification of the monarchy is a new thinking of the modern world. It took jurists 600 years to define the political and personal nature of a king/queen.
Until now, other countries look envious to us because they haven’t been able to replace what they had, and it will take a few hundred years to come before the gap.
I can assure you that nobody in the western world envies the UK at the moment. Coronation or not. And please stop with the old chestnut that the monarchy brings tourists.
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The personification of the monarchy is a new thinking of the modern world. It took jurists 600 years to define the political and personal nature of a king/queen.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I am quite happy for Camilla to become Queen. I think they and several other members of the Royal Family, such as Princess Anne, work very hard for their money. Not a job I would want.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
King Charles is not Head of the Church of England, he is defender of the faith. Something quite different.
This country is awash with money, £4.2billion given to Ukraine in a year, and many soldiers still here training, at who’s expense? (Not that I begrudge that, we wouldn’t get that money anyway). The money the royals bring in to this country will cover the expenses.
There was a meeting of all the commonwealth countries to see if Prince Charles could be missed and the crown go to Prince William, they all voted for Charles.
And please stop with the old chestnut that the monarchy brings tourists.
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