• SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 months ago

    Frankly, I wish we just abolished the damn monarchy already. I hate that we still have kings and queens in a democratic country even if they are just ceremonial. They don’t deserve all this media attention just because they got a lucky birth

    Treat all of them as one would any other citizen and be done with it. Unfortunately, the monarchy still faces popular support towards existing, though I hope it changes sooner or later

      • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        6 months ago

        The Swedish royal family ain’t Swedish. The British royal family ain’t British. Everyone else is British, because Queen Victoria had two hundred kids, and half of them died of a papercut.

    • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
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      6 months ago

      They don’t deserve all this media attention just because they got a lucky birth

      While I agree with you in principle, this guy in particular didn’t have a lucky birth. His parents were not aristocrats, his father is a felon and didn’t stick around, his mother raised him alone at first. His grandparents on the mothers side are divorced and his grandpa is also a felon.

      However when he was four and a half his mother married into the royal house. So he would have had a privileged upbringing from then on. So he’s still super fucked up, to piss it into the wind with violent crime.