Same here. If they want to 'go it alone', fine, but they must fund it themselves. It's not like they're starting from nothing, is it?!

I think there will be a lot of questions around the monarchy once the Queen dies. All the minor royals and hangers-on will be facing a fair bit of hostility from all corners.

I can't see Charles reviving it in any way, other than if he turns into a hippy and goes on a worldwide environmentalist campaign!

There is no way back, a bloodless change is the way ahead. Are we ready for a President, I don't think so. What would Andrew Marr, Journalists with the inteligence of lettuces, the politics of hate, on all sides do, nothing to say how they can do better, only how the opponent is worse.

I honestly, and genuinely, fear for tomorrow, I wish I had answers, and I doubt the gender identifying switch generation even think about the next hour, let alone the next decade.

It took 40 minutes for the BBC to mention Iran, no mention at all of the latest deaths in Afghanistan, be Conservarive, Liberal, Labour, where are our priorities? I will lay my life down for ypur right to believe, and my right to disagree.

Leaving aside the fact that you're probably making it up - was that before or after he was outed as being involved in an international paedophile sex slave operation?

It's quite telling that the revelations about Andrew appear to have caused the royal family, and the media, significantly less anguish than James Hewitt's progeny deciding to eff off with his wife and kid.

Have they renamed a borough of Leigh to south of France?

I'm so worried about the prince and his wife having enough to get by and be financially independent.
I do hope he wont have to source out his local food bank so that Archie can have his fill of spaghetti alphabet.
Worrying times.

It's amusing to see how angry the gammon hordes were at Meghan Markle joining the Royal Family; with Piers Morgan as their unit commander, they stormed the ramparts of her wokeness, her fondness for avocados and her constant touching of her baby bump - and most fiercely, they attacked the fact that Harry was much more fun when he was shooting brown people and dressing up as a Nazi.

It's even more amusing that after their thinly veiled racist rants, with Commander Piers doing so with stalkerish zeal in the Daily Mail, appear to have successfully convinced her to resign and leave the country, they are now very angry indeed that she's decided to resign and leave the country.

What a topsy-turvy world the gammon inhabit; angry, frustrated and bitter - and incapable of happiness, even when they get what they want. I don't know why they don't just have a sit down and enjoy a nice relaxing vegan sausage roll.

I've set up a justgiving page, just in case they really start to struggle.



Does anyone really think that, of any couple on the planet, that these two wont be able to make an absolute fortune.
If their move to Canada is embraced by the Royal Family, they will be set for life and if they are ostracised from The Royal Family, they will be made for life.
Whilst I accept that there is a "story" here, the media overload is just ridiculous and it's the self same media that have made Markle feel uncomfortable in the first place - it's like it was all a plan to sell chip paper.
On a related note, does anyone else think that Kate Middleton is turning into Karen Carpenter ? Losing weight, wearing those 70's style clothes that hide the frailty underneath and bitterly oppressed ?
The pseudo worry and anger from the masses ought to spare her some thought.

She had to shape up after her goofy/baldy hubby got caught out porking somebody else.

Whos William been porking

Allegedly Rose Hanbury, but has been largely discredited a lies.

Been all over the foreign press for a long time before the Royal PR machine and their friends in the British media had to shut it down.
It's not been easy for him.
Possibly learnt his traits from his xenophobic, racist Grandfather. His adulterating father, or his uncles alleged rape of a minor.
Sterling role models.

Don't forget his adulterus mother and toe sucking aunt.

Well I have to say I have not heard a whistle about that - suppose he’s got to keep up the family tradition

The apple never falls far from the tree.

No proof any apples fell anywhere on this one.

I can imagine a conversation round the royal breakfast table going like....

Queen, "What are we going to do about Andrew, this wont blow over. We need something to distract the press from it"

Philip.."Get the ginger one to spit his dummy out and bugger off with his wife, that should keep the press busy and forget about Andrew""

Yes, but the Princess of Hearts singlehandedly cleared all them minefields with just a visor and a metal-detector......Incredible,
As for the Princess of Pork, just an old free-loading munter who's still giving her 'unwavering support' to the pal of that deceased paedo.

And don't forget that she once actually touched an AIDS man; although I should point out that he had good AIDS - I'm pretty certain she never touched anyone with bad AIDS.

From the comments on here it would appear that the royal family plc doesnt have many fans. Yet the specialist royal reporters still talk in hushed tones on TV and the Daily Mail etc remain obsessed with royal stories. Why is that? Where are the royalists that lap up this nonsense?

I don't think there are that many 'royalists' left, outside of nursing homes and retirement communities - and most of the goodwill that exists towards them will die with the queen. (Magnificent woman, gawd bless her maj, hardworking, such a difficult year etc etc.)

What there are however, are great swathes of reality TV, gossip-obsessed numbskulls, who accept the royal family and their ultra privileged lifestyles at taxpayers expense, in return for lots of juicy goss; it's a version of Love Island, but with crowns and carriages, hence the industry that exists around them - and the fact that 'royal correspondent' is an actual paid job in 2020, rather than something that emotionally disturbed loners do in their spare room, via the medium of scrap-books and HTML blogs.

Harry and Meghan have probably accelerated what needed to happen anyway - the minor hangers on should fend for themselves, and the royal family should be significantly reduced in size and importance; transitioning towards a gradual phasing out altogether - which for mine, can't happen soon enough.

The royalists who lap up this nonsense are more than likely the same people who have fallen for the tourism line. Those folk who live in places like Blackburn and Hartlepool who cheer lead the sales of miniature Union Jacks and I Love London t-shirts in Windsor and Covent Garden.

They (the Royal Family) realised long, long ago that, by throwing the masses a few crumbs every now and then (weddings, christenings, funerals etc) keeps them on side and perhaps prevents too many questions about their relevance and value.
I think that you're right about things changing when The Queen abdicates.
For the older generation, I think that The Royal Family has given them something to hang on to when things weren't too great and a focal point when we are at war.
I have a discussion with my mother in law regularly about their worth and whilst it would be cringeworthy to have someone like Bojo as head of the nation, it doesn't seem to affect other countries that dont have a monarch.

Buckingham Palace would make a great hotel of some uber posh apartments or, just charge visitors for a look round.

Good to know we get coverage about Harry whilst the RFU get this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/51168926 Just hope we aren't reading similar about TWP soon.

Good to know we get coverage about Harry whilst the RFU get this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/51168926 Just hope we aren't reading similar about TWP soon.

Seems if you f*ck with the Queen only one winner!!

Good on Harry I say. He’s protecting his wife and child from the right wing English media and from what happened to his mum.

Nothing but respect for him