Should the UK still have a monarchy?
Jul 26th 2009, 8:03 pm
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Re: Should the UK still have a monarchy?
of course they are celebrating it. Why else would they keep it?
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?
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?
Jul 26th 2009, 8:08 pm
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Re: Should the UK still have a monarchy?
You cannot deny that the Royal Family is a tourism draw card
Jul 26th 2009, 8:13 pm
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Re: Should the UK still have a monarchy?
Jul 26th 2009, 9:25 pm
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Re: Should the UK still have a monarchy?
Jul 26th 2009, 9:45 pm
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Jul 26th 2009, 9:45 pm
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Jul 27th 2009, 1:39 am
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Re: Should the UK still have a monarchy?
People will come with or without them. The family itself is not the draw card it's the accoutriments.
Jul 27th 2009, 1:48 am
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Jul 27th 2009, 5:15 am
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Jul 27th 2009, 5:54 am
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Re: Should the UK still have a monarchy?
Of course we should keep em on, doing a sterling job. I was more than happy to see good old prince harry and his chums having a free ride round donnington this weekend on the back of a 2 seater ducati gp bike without having to pay a penny for it. And he rode his very own motorbike to the event, probably with a full speed escort to protect the top army type bloke he is, had to trail round the paddock and meet all the plebs from moto gp too!
Hurrah for the royals, they work like spoilt useless pissed up interbreeding adultering sausage jocky money grabbing freeloading twonks day in day out. hip hip hurrah. Pass the pimms.
Hurrah for the royals, they work like spoilt useless pissed up interbreeding adultering sausage jocky money grabbing freeloading twonks day in day out. hip hip hurrah. Pass the pimms.
