Do the Royals live so long because of heredity or because they are pampered and don't work?

Question

Do the Royals live so long because of heredity or because they are pampered and don't work?

Answer 1

Biggest set of scroungers in the country.

Answer 2

I find it hard to believe that they live much longer. Where are the numbers.

Answer 3

Justin, I think we'd all agree that heredity has a lot to do with it, but I've noticed, after living quite some time on this God-given earth, that most people with money have less stress than their counterparts....that said, the lack of stress in ones life adds years to it.  As a dear older friend used to say to those who asked her the secret of how she lived to be 100, she'd say, "Never honk your horn at folks".  I took that to mean we shouldn't sweat the small ****.  Excuse my French, dear.  God Bless, Mary

Answer 4

the latter is a cause of death. but the 1st is more feasible

Answer 5

I think the latter. People say they have jobs in the forces but their hands are held at all times by people who know which side their bread is buttered.

Answer 6

Maybe a bit of both ? The women in the Royal family are known to live long lives....look at the Queen Mother, Queen Mary, Queen Victoria and so on. So genetics probably plays a part.

Having access to the best of care and having people to deflect any stresses and strains from your life must also help.

They do work but obviously not in a heavy manual way but I agree they are very pampered.

Answer 7

O, they are pampered and full off ear-wax that kind of conserve them!

Answer 8

Queen Elizabeth, at 80 years of age, still does 250 meet and greets a year, AND reviews a pile of documents every night to keep her up to date for the weekly PM's visit, AND presides over the British Commonwealth AND is an internationally-recognized horse breeder.

I would bet you money and give you odds that you couldn't keep up with her.

So it's genetics.

Answer 9

Of the Queen's father's family, he died in late 50s due to smoking related cancer, his bro EdwardVIII - Duke of Windsor - of smoking-related cancer at 75, his sister at about 70 of causes I don't know, one bro died at 13 of epilepsy and other disabilities, one bro died at 73 as a geriatric,and one bro was killed in a plane crash at 40-odd. Not a good spread of long life, is it?

The mother's family, as someone has said, is tough Scots nobility and both her parents lived into their 80s.

I expect that the stress level is lower because there are so many people to do things for you, but that would be balanced by the stress of not being able to tie your shoelaces in private, let alone anything more personal.

The females in Philip's family lived to great ages, so Charlie does have some chance of outliving Mama, but I would put money on Princess Anne to be the next royal to 100.

Answer 10

Royals do work...they just don't work as we do....they have to work, they work in the public eye, going to events and keeping people happy....they also have a very high standard of living....i mean people are on their case 24/7, catering to their every whim and need. So I think the latter of your explanations is the most likely answer to the question.

Answer 11

Most of them aren't all that long-lived. The Queen Mum lived to 100, but she wasn't born royal; she was born Scots aristocracy, and Scottish nobs are very tough birds on the whole. (They need to be, to survive the conditions in the appallingly draughty and primitive Scottish castles they own.) The present Queen probably gets her stamina from her mother's family.