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Post by cernunnos on Sept 9, 2022 20:06:55 GMT 1
For those if you that don't know . "Duke of Cambridge and now Cornwall inherits cross-country landed estate that paid Charles income of £21m last year." Have a good weekend !
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Post by woolybanana on Sept 9, 2022 20:17:33 GMT 1
Which means the tax payer does not need to pay out and is an example of Charles’ good management of the Duchy of Cornwall. Check out the facts.
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Post by Aardvark on Sept 9, 2022 20:55:36 GMT 1
Agreed. Now we will have weeks of eulogies and documentaries surrounding her life, her death, her funeral, the new King, and endless soundbites with weeping people in the street. Is watching it compulsory? Thankfully no, but finding alternatives will be a challenge.
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Post by exile on Sept 9, 2022 21:17:25 GMT 1
For those if you that don't know . "Duke of Cambridge and now Cornwall inherits cross-country landed estate that paid Charles income of £21m last year." Have a good weekend ! That smacks heavily of envy - the green kind.
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Post by gigi on Sept 9, 2022 21:44:38 GMT 1
That’s how it came across to me.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2022 23:04:27 GMT 1
I find the idea of one English man conferring the title of Prince of Wales on another English man very, mmm, English? In the 21st century when we were to have flying cars, tinfoil clothes and a steak dinner in a pill, these people are still neck deep in a medieval fairytale. This was the ideal time to scale it back to the bare bones but no, an entitled oik sees his kid ok while his "subjects" languish.
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Post by manonthemoon2 on Sept 9, 2022 23:40:05 GMT 1
I see your point about scaling back and agree.
However, King Charles has a duty to the Commonwealth and UK, he was born into this whether he liked it or not.
By the same protocol his heir will become Prince of Wales,and then King William or whatever he wants to call himself.
It's British tradition and will become the future history of British monarchy.
The Queen did a grand job, let's face it, working 48 hours before her passing. Any other 96 year old done that?
RIP Ma'am
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Post by Nifty on Sept 10, 2022 2:31:21 GMT 1
Ja de buckedy rum ting noo !
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Post by tim17 on Sept 10, 2022 6:19:43 GMT 1
In the 21st century the idea of a hereditary monarchy 'ruling' any country is ridiculous but as long as the majority are happy with it and the notional 'ruling' isn't abused then is there any real need for change?
Several people here have declared themselves to be 'republicans' so I'd be interested to learn how that would work in practice, do you just take the royals wealth and property to give to the nation and then have an election for a head of state, would that be a political appointment or just as a figurehead (Germany, Ireland etc) and finally is that really a 'cheaper' option or is it a case of stuff the cost it's the right thing to do?
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Post by flober on Sept 10, 2022 6:31:35 GMT 1
Keep the monarch if you want,my objection / question is why are all the hangers on getting paid a stipend from the civil list? more importantly why is the monarch having any say in how the country runs?
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Post by tim17 on Sept 10, 2022 7:06:36 GMT 1
Keep the monarch if you want,my objection / question is why are all the hangers on getting paid a stipend from the civil list? more importantly why is the monarch having any say in how the country runs? Are they though?
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Post by houpla on Sept 10, 2022 7:07:30 GMT 1
Just to buck the trend, I'd say that it's high time the monarch had more power to curtail the greed, ambition and incompetence displayed by successive governments. Perhaps it's idealist to think that someone in his position has so much already that he'd show more compassion and genuine concern for his subjects than a bunch of self-serving nobodies
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Post by flober on Sept 10, 2022 7:22:07 GMT 1
Keep the monarch if you want,my objection / question is why are all the hangers on getting paid a stipend from the civil list? more importantly why is the monarch having any say in how the country runs? Are they though? Are they though what?
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Post by cernunnos on Sept 10, 2022 7:34:49 GMT 1
For those if you that don't know . "Duke of Cambridge and now Cornwall inherits cross-country landed estate that paid Charles income of £21m last year." Have a good weekend ! That smacks heavily of envy - the green kind. Sorry , you are very very wrong , I am not envious of anyone , I don't see why one man should inherit so much wealth, when others have very little .
To be honest I feel sad that there is still such a medieval system in the UK .
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Post by cernunnos on Sept 10, 2022 7:35:34 GMT 1
Just to buck the trend, I'd say that it's high time the monarch had more power to curtail the greed, ambition and incompetence displayed by successive governments. Perhaps it's idealist to think that someone in his position has so much already that he'd show more compassion and genuine concern for his subjects than a bunch of self-serving nobodies You mean , they need a dictator ?
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