99 years of tax subsidies, he surely had a good life without many regrets. It's beyond my comprehension why humans still keep these hereditary regimes, constitutional or absolutist, alive
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#242Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it’s interesting that you’d blame this family for the horrors of colonialism. They haven’t had a say in British policy for around 2 centuries. Although the monarch meets the Prime Minister every week, they cannot tell the PM what to do, unless it affects the royal family personally. The PM listens to what they have to say but charts their own course. If you’re looking for someone to blame, Churchill deserves…
Unfortunately people are very quick to assign "generational guilt" these days. It's as if we've gone backwards, and are no longer capable of being individuals. "Oh, you're white/black/related to x/decended from y, did you know your ancestors did *that*?"
As long as people from the global south suffer from Anglo European imperialism. Anglo Europeans should carry that generational guilt just as the global south has suffered for generations and still suffers to this day.
Here's a interesting tweet about how the global north is sucking dry the global south: https://twitter.com/jasonhickel/status/1377180178690940934
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#243Sixty five years as the husband of the head of state of a G7, nuclear armed nation, that brought the world Thatcherite individualism and the first cracks in the EU. Philip, like it or not, wielded influence and power beyond his constitutional station. One doesn’t have to like him, but one should respect him.
That's gunna be a 'no' from me, dawg.
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#244Sixty five years as the husband of the head of state of a G7, nuclear armed nation, that brought the world Thatcherite individualism and the first cracks in the EU. Philip, like it or not, wielded influence and power beyond his constitutional station. One doesn’t have to like him, but one should respect him.
Wow, why should I respect that this unelected aristocrat "wielded great influence beyond his station"?
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Clearly you know NOTHING about Monarchy, their history and traditions. You’re getting it twisted because of this whole “the royal family are racist” baloney
The reaction to some model complaining on TV is not why MOST people hate the british monarchy. Personally my grandmother's civilian ship was fired on by the british navy because ... well fun!
British Navy incident........hatred of the royal family. Not entirely sure where the connection between the two is. Maybe it’s misplaced anger
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It feels like the better way to do it tbh. The PM gets the benefit of her experience without having the media use her words to beat him with if he choses a different direction.
Or a better way for a very wealthy person with far more power and influence than the average person to, in secret, lobby the leader of the government. Frankly I would rather have this lobbying out in the open where it can be held accountable.
Those secret lobbying meetings with rich and powerful people happen regardless. Compared with most lobbyists the Queen doesn't have power.
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#247A sad day for the Queen. Not only has she lost her husband but also her 3rd cousin.
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#248Because Prince Charles is heir to the throne (and has been portrayed more negatively in the news media than any other living person), some in the HN community may be surprised to know that he wrote a book on philosophy . https://www.amazon.com/Harmony-New-Way-Looking-World/dp/0061... I found the book to be astonishingly good. It takes a design approach to Platonism and western esotericism. It goes deep into "sacred g…
Just goes to show how interesting and creative life would be, were we not wage-slaves like Philip.
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The Queen isn't just the head of the armed forces - they swear an oath of loyalty directly to the Monarch... Interestingly (to me, anyways) is the oath is made directly to Queen Elizabeth by name, not to the crown in general. And isn't made by officers in the Royal Navy, because the navy wasn't created by act of Parliament, but by royal prerogative, so their fealty is assumed.
> [T]he oath is made directly to Queen Elizabeth by name, not to the crown in general. So when a monarch dies does everyone in the armed forces take a new oath?
The actual oath is something like "I swear ... to Queen Elizabeth, and her heirs, ..."
I ASSuMEd the oath would more like "I swear ... to the Crown ..."
But, if the Queen is in fact the Crown (as stated by a different response), then I suppose it's a distinction without a difference.