What is the point in having a queen?

Question

Queens allways get lots of attention and they are rich and stuff. But why are they so special?

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Answer 1

I think the Queen plays a very unique role in the country.

She is the only one I would trust to do what is in the interest of the People because she was raised that way.

She has no ulterior motives (unlike politicians)

The Forces swear allegiance to her instead of the PM therefore allowing less power to be concentrated upon the PM

She is politically NEUTRAL yet can wield influence over the political system.

She cannot vote, but does meet with the PM every week and discusses matters and receives advice with the utmost confidentiality. (even George Bush doesn't have someone like that)

Long live the Queen.

Answer 2

Because their family helped to make our country what it is today? Without them we'd probably be Spanish.

Answer 3

It's much more glamorous than a bog-standard president.

Answer 4

The Queen is the Head of State - she represents this Country.  She meets with and entertains other Heads of States (Kings, Presidents and Prime Ministers) when they are visiting this Country.

What she does is a job which she inherited when her father died of lung cancer, and was trained into it by the Dowager Queen Mother, Queen Mary.

She was crowned our Head of State, possibly as long ago as when your granny was a little girl and she vowed in the Abbey, that she accepted her job for life.

Our alternatives might be somebody like the American President or President Mugabe of Zimbabwe.

Her family is wealthy in its own right; the money that is paid into running the Monarchy is the same as that paid into running the Presidency and The White House in the USA.  Buck House does not belong to the Queen (you can go on a tour of it if you want), but like the White House in America and our own 10 Downing Street, it is inhabited by the person who is doing the job which requires them to live in it; I'm sure the Queen would prefer to live in Balmoral Castle if she had the choice.

Don't they teach you basic things like this at school these days?

Answer 5

Tradition.

Answer 6

Her work is basically the same as that of a Cultural Affairs Promoter for the government. And the rest of the family, unfortunately, make for great press.

Answer 7

The point is to have someone higher than our primeminister so that if want him dissmissed we have someone at head of state than can do it. Check out the westmienster polical system..

Answer 8

The Queen is the head of state.  if we didn't have an hereditary head of state we would have to have an elected one, and that would mean more bloody boring elections.  The Queen saves us from all that, and as far as I am concerned she is cheap at the price.  An elected head of state would not cost us any less.