I think that is an interesting question. The royal family in Thailand do have a lot of support within the country amongst it’s people. The last King and Queen were super popular. The laws limiting what people can say or write about them makes it hard to know just how many people do not support them though.
The recent demonstrations I thought were more to do with the current King who is widely disliked, (with many people wanting one of his sisters to have taken the throne instead of him). I am interested to see how this impacts the support of the royal family going forwards. No doubt it will continue to have a powerful role for a long time yet.
As for the British royal family, like others have mentioned, much of the popular support is for the current queen, and much of the goodwill she has generated will fade as others take the throne. I think some of the Brexit shenanigans towards the end of last year showed just how little power in our political system they wield.
Documents published by the Guardian suggest the monarch’s personal lawyers successfully lobbied ministers to change a draft law in order to conceal her private wealth.
Can’t get the tweet from the FT to show - but the link is to an article on The UK companies seeing the upside of Brexit. It’s paid content, so only accessible if you subscribe to the FT (which I dont ).
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