If the UK decided to abolish the monarchy what should we do with the royal family?

Question

If the UK decided to abolish the monarchy what should we do with the royal family?

Answer 1

send them off to a horse farm - they'll be in heaven! have you noticed how they're so into horses.

Prince Harry will probably end up in jail one day if he carries on with his behavior

Answer 2

Give them to the USA.

Answer 3

Let them have one of their houses to live in

Answer 4

Put them all on state benefits and see how they fair.

Answer 5

Well they own Balmoral and Sandringham (as opposed to Buckingham Palace, Holyrood House and Windsor Castle which belong to the state) and the law says you can't just strip them of their possessions.

However, at this point in the time the Republican movement is small but very vocal and getting rid of the Royal family would have to be put to a referendum. None of the major political parties are republican so forget it for the present.

Answer 6

If we ever did away with the institution of the Monarchy then this country would enter into a Civil War ----its not a subject that could be achieved by a vote.  

To remove the royal family to "somewhere else " is not an option to extremists because they could always return.

Therefore, it would take a revolution to remove the Monarchy and if you study your history revolutions are always accompanied by a bloodbath.

As far as I am concerned the Monarchy with all its faults is far superior to a Civil war or a bloodbath.  You dont discard 100 years of history lightly.

Apart from that, most dicators have far more power than the Queen ever did and use them far more indiscriminately.

Answer 7

Open Buckingham Palace as a brothel - they have screwed us long enough!

Lol

Answer 8

stick the queen and Philip in an old folks home.  Stick the rest of them in high rise council flats.  I'm sure the neighbours would make them very welcome

Answer 9

I wonder if some people here want to abolish the monarchy or descend into communism.

Seeing as they're still stupidly rich without any of the taxpayers money, they'd still go on living the same old life, just without any official functions, etc. To strip them of their assets would be abhorrent, not least because it's completely illegal to just take people's money away*, but also because it'd be so bloody communist.

*Yea, before anyone even thinks of bringing the tax argument up, not only do they pay tax these days, but they pay more into the treasury through excess income (which they make through their own investments and land holdings, etc) than they are paid in taxes, so it would hardly be a valid point.

Answer 10

sell them on ebay!

Answer 11

Legally the Queen has much of the possessions within the palaces.

The trouble is do we really want a President? Has France benefited because of its presidency? Each president (François Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac) have been accused of corruption and abuse of office but always enabled to be above the law. President Clinton the same. And how will we stop the country being run by a dictatorship?

The monarchy has stopped this from happening over the last 300 years, which Thatcher and Blair I am sure would not have objected to, had it served their interests. Both have been forced out of office constitutionally but look at the African presidents who have overstayed their welcome and become brutal to their subjects.

Answer 12

Give them the Tsar Nicholas treatment...

Answer 13

Move them to a council estate in Birmingham

Answer 14

Send them to france,,,,,and open ,,,all there palaces to the homeless,,,,,,,,

Answer 15

They'd probably go to Canada. They have plenty of other countries, after all.

Answer 16

and whose face, pray, will we have on our stamps? gordon sodding brown's?????

Answer 17

Banish them to one estate; sell off assets from other estates; let them live off of whatever they have left in the bank; let them fade into obscurity. This seems more than fair.

Answer 18

Eat them.  It would be the only chance you'd ever get.

Answer 19

Send them to exile

Answer 20

remember the Romanovs ??

Answer 21

they could sod off to Germany----- they descend from Germans.

OR they could be used for drug testing