Should the UK still have a monarchy?
Jul 26th 2009, 6:35 pm
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Jul 26th 2009, 6:40 pm
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Jul 26th 2009, 6:41 pm
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Re: Should the UK still have a monarchy?
Picking up your MO: "so you reckon French tourism has suffered due to the lack of a royal family, do you?"
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Jul 26th 2009, 6:45 pm
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Jul 26th 2009, 6:46 pm
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Re: Should the UK still have a monarchy?
If by keeping the changing of the guard you are admitting to their ability to draw tourism
Jul 26th 2009, 6:47 pm
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Jul 26th 2009, 6:48 pm
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Jul 26th 2009, 6:49 pm
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Re: Should the UK still have a monarchy?
The Americans kept the changing of the guard.
"Are you saying that they're celebrating the royal family, are you?"
Come on. How often does a royal appear in the Changing of the Guard, eh?
Jul 26th 2009, 6:52 pm
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Re: Should the UK still have a monarchy?
Jul 26th 2009, 7:26 pm
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Re: Should the UK still have a monarchy?
But they're still parasitical freeloading scroungers. They are past their sell by dates, old fashioned, marginal and living in a time warp.
There is no place in today's society for them.
Lock them up and throw away the keys. Let others live in their palaces, drink their fine wines, eat their fine foods and wear their disgusting collection of jewels and diamonds and gold.
Shame on them.
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The list goes on and gets seedier and seedier....
(quoting myself from about 4 pages ago! )
There is no place in today's society for them.
Lock them up and throw away the keys. Let others live in their palaces, drink their fine wines, eat their fine foods and wear their disgusting collection of jewels and diamonds and gold.
Shame on them.
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The list goes on and gets seedier and seedier....
(quoting myself from about 4 pages ago! )
Jul 26th 2009, 7:48 pm
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Jul 26th 2009, 7:58 pm
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Re: Should the UK still have a monarchy?
It's got nothing to do with a Royal turning up to the changing of the guard. If the Royal Family were no more then I could pretty much guarantee that there would not be as many people turning up to see it as the ceremony would be fake and unmeaningful. To actually know that they ARE protecting the Queen means it has a higher importance.
How many foreigners actually go to St Paul's just because that's where Charles & Di got hitched? How many more would go if Prince William got married there?
