The Queen

?Milo27 thankyou

BlueBell...you are correct. Silly comments about Corbyn. How anyone with a brain could be scared of a man who is nothing but polite and gracious...compared to the potty mouthed thug that is our present PM astounds me. But then I believe in high taxes as I have seen first hand how well countries in Scandinavia work, high taxes, excellent free at point of access services, no abject poverty, no street sleepers, excellent education for all, excellent healthcare. To my mind a country that looks after everyone is the civilised country as opposed to the country that does nothing but cut taxes and services.

JC, is a Muppet!

Oh I am just so fed up with them all - on the heels of the long drawn out years of Brexit agonies we now have general election lies and misquotes. What have we done to deserve this? However - I do wonder, if JC and some of his policies were given free reign, just how long it would take before this country was competely unrecognisible.

I think our dear Queen is wonderful , not sure about the rest but would prefer a royal family than a Donald Trump.

I agree with you Solonge
Why do we need so many lesser royals?
Each with their own retinues and security.
I'm sure the likes of Anne's and Edward's children are only too happy to be out of the piblic eye.

Public not piblic

Corbyn is a total waste of time. Lots of countries who do not have a monarchy would love one and they love ours. It is a British institution and is here to stay. The Queen is amazing and is still going so strong in spite of advancing years. Charles and William will be very worthy successors.

why do we need so many lesser royals

There are not that many now, Grammaretro and presumably, if their services were not required by various charities and organisations, there would be even fewer. Supply and demand!

There's one less now anyway! so as I said before, perhaps Harry and Meghan can pick up some of the jobs that Andy did.

Where are these countries? Shropshirelass who envy our monarchy. I haven't come across any lately.

I have never, ever met anybody who struck up conversation with the words "Gosh, I envy you and your wonderful Royal Family"

I think Andy might have done permanent damage.

Have you travelled much grapefruitpip?

One question is often 'Have you met the Queen'?
One place we visited revere Prince Philip
Australian mags are full of pictures and stories of the younger royals

Sorry no, nobody has ever asked me if I have met the Queen.

What, wherever in the world you have travelled?

I don’t think there will be permanent damage. The public and the media haven’t expressed anger for the Queen as happened over Diana , the Duke of Edinburgh was accused of murder

Don’t know wether he said it or not.... but I agree with the sentiment. Oh and as for tourism... France gets more money from tourism than we do, and looked what they did to their monarchy!

Yes, but look at their weather

And even though they got rid of their monarchy, they kept their castles
And replaced their royal family with a series of emperors!

Callistemon, I have traveled a bit, Skegness, 2 nights in a Shearings Hotel in Dundee,a day trip to Llandudno. Nobody has ever asked me if I know the Queen.

They probably assumed that you do.

Especially in Dundee

Queen waved to me once. Just me. There was no one else there.

Did you curtsey?
Or were your knees hurting, like mine?

Tourists don't see the royals, they visit the historical buildings with the trappings of centuries of privilege on display there. The palaces and castles are going to be there long after the monarchy is judged to be outmoded.

LONG LIVE THE ROYAL FAMILY. they good for our country and for the tourists..ok they old fashioned but so is britain we got history going back thousands of years ,ok i agree they could live on less money.and pay bedroom tax .lol...

The palaces and castles are going to be there long after the monarchy is judged to be outmoded.
They may not, of course, come the revolution.
Look what happened last time. Many castles are in a sorry state thanks to Cromwell.