Modern Monarchies? Queen of England, for example?

Question

Someone explain this to me. Maybe it's because I am an American, and we have never had royalty, but why do these modern monarchies exist, and why do people kiss their asses? I just saw footage of a photo shoot with queen victoria, and it just pissed me off. She's an uppity old b*tch. Why do the english people revere her, or even tolerate her? s***w the royal family, they get to live in luxury and do nothing just by virtue of birth. I just don't get it. Eliminate the position.

Answer 1

Hey, not all monarch are going to exist long. For example see the example of NEPAL. In Bhutan, people begin fight against monarch as well. Only those monarch exist which respect the people of their countries.

Answer 2

i like the queen, she doesn't do anything wrong against me, i find the royal family quite amusing actually.

and i dont pay tax as yet so im not funding their lifestyles

and anyway harry just fought for his country so he did something right for a change.

Answer 3

Hi Chad,

you are a little mistaken in your claim that you have never had royalty...until you threw us out you were, in fact, ruled by the British monarchy for quite a while.

The butt kissing, I'm quite sure, went on there just as it does in Britain now.

As to the Queen (Elizabeth, I assume, not Victoria) I would take a little exception about her being 'uppity' (though she does tend to be more than a little sour-faced most of the time...but think of this:

Our monarchy has been running for centuries and has passed the tests of history.  There is some resentment among the English/British about being ruled by a hereditary system of government headed by a monarch, but there is also a larger section of the public who revere the monarchy and what it stands for.

Who's right?...that will depend on where you and I stand.

But think of your president (any of them, not just the present incumbent) A few years back (1996) I was driving a truck for a friend to deliver his raspberry crop to Pike Street market in Seattle I had been with my friend a couple of times and remembered the route.

     One day I was stopped, while only a few blocks from the market by a suited individual (with compulsory earpiece and gun bulge) and told I couldn't drive down the street.  I explained that I had fresh raspeberries on board and that they were being awaited at the market and he turned extremely nasty.

He swore profusely at me and told me to go away (euphanism, there) and refused to give me any alternative route to enable me to get to the market.  The city was strange to me and I had little sense of how the street layout worked.  It took me quite a while to find an unblocked alternative route.

Reason?  Your president (Clinton at the time) MAY have been going down that street after leaving the hotel at which he was staying.  The streets were cleared of all traffic, pedestrians were barricaded away from their workplaces and even homes and all because he MAY travel down that street!

Now, in britain we are not persecuted to that extent when the Queen of other royal family mebers are around and although I don't blame President Clinton for the altercation it was done in his name.

Think of that when you criticise the queen.  I am assuming you mean the photo-shoot disagreement with the American female photographer who asked her to 'take off the crown'.

The regalia of the Garter, which the queen was wearing (in response to the host's request) is a centuries old costume with very precise rules (which the queen follows rigourously) and the monarch is not permitted to appear 'half-dressed' while wearing it.

Yet, despite her displeasure she did, eventually, agree to remove the crown (and the regalia) to get the less formal shots the photographer wanted.

Her staff didn't swear at the photographer (though they did explain why her request could not be carried out) and no-one was forced into huge delays and stressful situations merely because she was there...unlike wherever your president goes.

Of the two I think I prefer the royal family's way of conducting themselves, but-as with most things-the final choice is up to you.

Cheers,

BobSpain

Answer 4

WE,over here,don't give a George Dubbya Bush,our euphemism for sh*t,what you or any of your ill informed,semi articulate countrymen think.Mind your own fukking business

Answer 5

Whoops, you didn't get the title right either. She is not Queen of England.  Since you are American & do not have a royal family, your opinion really doesn't count on this subject anyway.