I’m not sure why there’s so much obsession with that. It’s quite clearly not just her, it’s a Royal Family thing.
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Taking a step back, yes this is terrible. It’s terrible for her and the kids. It’s terrible for William having to go through this simultaneously with his dad and now the mother of his kids. But the Palace’s handling of this was awful and should be something they are much better at than they showed themselves to be (unless of course you think Kate did do the photoshop herself and did it under the radar of the handlers).
The initial conspiracy stuff was silly and had limited reach. It was something the Palace could have ignored, especially as her public absence was already preemptive explained by an official statement they made around the turn of the year of her going for a medical procedure that would keep her away from public appearances until the Spring. We were still in the period explained by that statement, and if the palace felt the conspiracies were worth responding to they could have just pointed to that sign. They didn’t need to post that stupid fucking photoshop and it was predictable it would blow up into something orders of magnitude bigger once the fuck up was identified.
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Agree with this.
What this whole episode says about a) how the Royal family sees itself, and b) how it feels it has to interact with the citizenry of the nation it ostensibly leads is the most interesting thing to me.
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You’d think the grifting pedos could pay for their own coronation. Business is booming for the Windsors, pretty shite optics, here…
Maybe the folks pissing and moaning about the state of the finances could start by asking this worthless sack of cunts to pay their fair share??
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I’m still seething that the council here has to pay rent to this mob so i can walk on the beach.
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We need this reaction emoji for posts like yours…
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Although, thanks to their Tory mates, swimming at said beach comes with free diarrhoea and sanitary products.
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Growing up I was never a royalist, but neither was I especially against them. The Queen’s Silver Jubilee in 1977 was an early childhood memory and the street parties were a special thing.
I remember the fairytale wedding to Diana. I remember getting told off for telling a great joke I learned at primary school - Why is Prince Charles’ willy blue? Because he dips it in Di every night. 
Growing into adulthood the magic, if there ever was any, all faded.
Having been out of the country for 16 years, the case for decoupling from the Royal Family seems clear. It is an anachronistic throwback, and the days of doffing your cap to your betters are long gone. And rightly so.
The wealth and privilege is galling. Most people are struggling to get by, and the Royal Family seems so out of place when set against that reality in the modern age.
Over here in the States it is its own special shitshow. The misinformed masses have just elected a monster to be the Head of State.
So replacing the Royal Family will need some careful thought, and there is no guarantee that we will love what will come after.
With that said, it’s no reason not to try. A cross-party commission should be set up to look at the whole thing, and consider what should be done with the assets and so on.
I’m as certain as can be that the Royal Family is independently wealthy. They won’t be struggling like you and me any time soon. They will be quite fine.
But much of the wealth, the trappings, belongs to the country. And it should not be beyond grown ups to be able to decide on some useful things, for the good of the people of the country, that could be done with all that wealth.
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(Brilliant post btw…)
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It’s what I’m wearing now. Even the scepter. It’s why my typing is so clumsy
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I’ve often wondered if your typos are due to the trappings of empire.
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Someone needs to declonize my keyboard
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Also…
The sausage fingers on that 
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At least they’re organic sausages.
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dunno, give them more power and prestige…weed out the Andrews, Chuck seems OK… the alternative seems pretty unpleasant right now…
Totally disagree.
What do you see as the alternative? It certainly wouldn’t be a US style president, more like the Irish or German models.
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2 -3 years ago, a thread on the Norwegian royal Family would have filled me with fuzzy pride.The kind of prideyou have when you think “well, ok they are royals, but in our country they serve a function, do a fine job and we can be proud of them as people”
Martha Louise marrying Durek the Shaman and Marius Borg Høybø, omg, won¨t even start about him. It is just painful. I use the forum here to escape from those stories in the tabloids.
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