Prince Charles

I think you’re forgetting the extended family Annie and strangely none of them work to keep themselves ( nor will they ever) why should they?

You surely don’t need me to tell you how flying round the world as often as they all do , driving or being driven in gas guzzling cars ( I know Charlie has just treat himself to, or been given cute little electric Jaguar to show willing ha ha ) running several large homes, Eating and drinking lavishly as they do and then spouting about saving the bloomin’ planet is hypocrisy at its worst!

If I won the lottery, which I won’t because I don’t play it, I would buy a car, buy my three grandchildren houses and buy a house for me to be free of council officials having the right to inspect my home, even my bedroom.

You wouldn’t Gilly?

Funding a President would not cost what maintaining the RF costs. They may well give money but its not their money. The system of having a Monarchy and all that it entails is just so wrong.. I don't know how anyone who has read history books can disagree.

DH is a historian, I think he still thinks they are best value for money and avoids many elections which may not remain apolitical - and would cost more in the long term.

We have a benign monarchy now, unlike many of those over the centuries.

I agree with Jalima's post above. They are the best value for money etc....

annep How many tourists would come to see a president and spend their money in the UK? People fly in from all over the globe for Royal events.

Tbh, for some people whatever Charles did wouldn't be good enough, so its not really worth discussing. I would certainly far in a way prefer a well meaning King as head of state than a power grabbing President. Yes you can exchange him/her every few years, but the inevitable like for like isn't attractive! ?

Having a president ( like the Irish or the Germans) as a head of state is much much cheaper than the RF but much more importantly is a sign of a democratic grown up nation that goes to the ballot box rather than the vagina. However, sadly that will not come to pass. But I don’t see why we can’t hsve a much more Scandinavian type of RF.

Why set up such a dichotomy niggly? Presidents come in all sorts of constitutional guises - or didn’t you realise that?

maryeliza what do you mean "goes to the ballot box rather than the vagina" ? I don't get it.

You can keep them!!

I think it's a rather trying way of saying that someone is born to it as opposed to being voted for!

Sparklefizz the end doesn't justify the means. And the monarchy may well have changed but it doesn't change what they did in the past to acquire their wealth and power. I don't understand people treating one family as if they are the most important people in the land. Why are people blind to this. I will never understand.

and yes MaryEliza democratic!!

I do play the lottery Annie in the tiniest hope of improving mine and my families lives . I don’t need millions . Just enough for DH and I to get off this treadmill, pay my debts and to help my children out . The rf probably wouldn’t get out of bed for what I could live on comfortably for the rest of my life.

I don’t think these people are any better than anyone else in this country, just obscenely rich due to accident of birth. It puzzles me shy anyone would think otherwise .

Anyway off into the school yard now.

I certaintly do not think they are better than anyone else, but I don’t think this of anyone. I do not think them more important than anyone else. They are human beings, born into a family of wealth with a job to do. But they are human beings with the same emotions as me , if cut they bleed. They are not responsible for the actions of their ancestors neither am I responsible for the actions of my ancestors.

I do think Charles has been subjected to humiliation and unfair criticism and is the victim of many lies,

If I had to choose out of the entire Windsor family who I have always respected it’s Katherine Kent who has retired from royal duties.

What’s trying niggly with the truth - PC is where he is because of whose vagina he came out of - it’s as simple as that - or maybe you believe in the divine right of kings ?

Perhaps he arrived by caesarean

Nope

Did queenie have an enema ?

Annie???, perhaps you could write and ask her!!!!!!?

Yes they bleed but for two of them at least help is at hand. Special treatment for more important people or what?!
I bet there's more too.
A Royal Navy doctor also accompanies the Queen on tours, carrying a bulky medical bag with a mobile defibrillator.

The Queen and the Prince of Wales also both have their own personal supply of blood in their convoy in countries where a reliable source is questionable.

niggly ? x

I expect most of the heads of state in other countries do too! So what! Who cares!!!

Where would we stop,? They are part & parcel of our entire countries history, would communism suit the country better ? I don’t think so. Nothing is ever equal, who would you move onto next? Actors, stars,politicians, models , anyone who has inherited family wealth?

I don’t care but gosh it bothers some ?. I am thankful they have their own medical team, if Charles had an accident when staying in his farmhouse in Wales, the Heath Hospital in Cardiff would be in a tizz