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> (and has been portrayed more negatively in the news media than any other living person) Um, did you forget about his first wife?
Are you thinking of Diana? She was Charles' wife.
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#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Because Prince Charles is heir to the throne (and has been portrayed more negatively in the news media than any other living person) I can sit and name persons more negatively treated for hours and not run out of names. EDIT: Why is my comment collapsed? Genuine question, don't know how this works.
> Because Prince Charles is heir to the throne (and has been portrayed more negatively in the news media than any other living person) The UK should quickly tweak their royal succession laws, and give the crown to Edward, or Anne, while the queen is still alive. If Charles abdicates, the line of succession dispute would be rather funny under the current succession laws.
I have never heard about this, do you have a link that elaborates? I love weird succession lines.
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#173It wasn't that long ago he recovered from an infection [1]. And I remember reading he is only a few more months from 100 years old!. Spending his life serving the country. Rest In Peace [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-56172496
> Spending his life serving the country. More like spending his life having the country serve him.
It cuts both ways. The life of a British Royal is better than almost anyone else's. At the same time, they don't really have a lot of freedom in the usual sense - a lot of ceremonies, formal parties, events etc. You might have a better life as an retired, anonymous millionaire with some US$5M in the bank (which would also make you extremely privileged).
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#174I really wish we could just do away with all this royal family nonsense. You guys are somehow special because what? Useless social fiction from antiquity.
I find the idea of a royal family far more inspiring and wholesome than the celebrity culture which has overtaken the West. The vast majority of celebrities get far more air time, live in more obscene luxury, and are more condescending, than the entire royal family put together. One of my biggest worries about Meghan was that celebrity culture would begin seeping into the royal family - and unfortunately it looks lik…
> I find the idea of a royal family far more inspiring and wholesome than the celebrity culture which has overtaken the West.
Some of the celebrities are at least self made. Rich assh0les get to live in perpetual luxury just because of birth seems unfortunate.
I respect the Kim K more than the queen of England (although I absolutely hate Kim K) because Kim K is self-made, and the queen is there because of birth.
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#175I don't think he ever wasn't at peace. He was a rich old racist who did fuck all really, what did he have to not be at peace about. One less state scrounger as far as I'm concerned.
who hurt you? Seems like the monarchy cannot win either way to rectify their errors with British colonialism. So the commonwealth is also bad as well? or you prefer it to be abolished?
What is the commonwealth? Its not bad now that it exists, but if it never existed would it be much different? A shared history unites some countries regardless.
But I agree with you, the monarchy cannot win. They have a very privileged upbringing and life, far removed from the rest of us, and it is at our expense. They are no better or different to the rest of us, so why are they treated as if they are. Their ancestors were lucky enough to be the ones on the throne when we, as a people, decided to stop killing off monarchs when we wanted to replace them. And on that basis they have enjoyed decades of power, influence and wealth, and they continue to accrue it too.
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#176Rest in peace! I have always felt strongly against monarchy. Especially against the British royal family, more so as I am an Indian. They never apologized for any of the massacres (Jallianwala is just one example) or pogroms committed at their behest and in their name. I do believe they are a disgusting symbol of colonialism, racism, subjugation. It is very disturbing that a good part of the world and an entire natio…
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…
“India is Indira and Indira is India” is just a sign of the tendency towards personality cults that the polity suffer from. In fact, it was not Indira who coined the slogan, but rather a particularly oily sycophant, D. K. Barooah [1].
In fact, in some sense, there is an attempt to try to deify/lionize the PM as a royal. I don't think that it is a symptom of the failure of parliamentary democracy, rather it is a tendency among people.
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#177As I can't be the only one curious, the South Pacific tribe that deified him plan to worship Charles now. To me, signifying that they are doing it for the publicity now. https://nypost.com/2021/02/27/islanders-who-call-prince-phil...
Once you get Internet access, legitimate cargo cultism probably fades quite quickly. Why revere John Frum when Jeff Bezos lets you buy in one click?
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#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not at all in the case of Elizabeth II. She holds the throne because parliament gave it to her ancestor, George I, to avoid a Catholic inheriting the throne.
Yes, another tidbit, UK barely avoided getting a German monarch by 2 years. Otherwise they may have ended with a Prussian on the throne
Instead, the heir now descends from the houses Battenberg ('Mountbatten') and Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha ('Windsor')...
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#180Because 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…
"sacred geometry", esoteric, Pythagorean and holistic? It certainly sounds freemasonry-like. Was he a Freemason?