Anti-royal protesters are being arrested in the U.K. as 'Not My King' tag grows

Re:Anti-royal protesters are being arrested in the U.K. as '... by austinjp on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @12:44PM (#32826735)

Indeed. I'm just curious about why people aren't ready to say the monarchy should go. All the plus points would seem to be achievable by other means. The negative points are extremely distasteful to me - which won't come as much surprise :)

Support for the monarchy is associated with older age groups [1]. Perhaps as time passes, those who are opposed or ambivalent will be in the majority. Maybe 40-50 years from now? I hope that William will try to get ahead of this, and persuade his father to lay the groundwork for the UK's monarchy to drift towards a different model. I obviously doubt he'll be in favour of abandoning the gravy train altogether.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/863893/support-for-the-m...

Edit: Not sure about the people of the UK choosing for things to be "this way" by beheading Charles I. That was ostensibly a choice for constitutional monarchy instead of absolute, but developed into abolition of the monarchy. It was followed by the Restoration of the monarchy under Charles II, and I'm not sure that was much of a "choice" by the people either.

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Re:Anti-royal protesters are being arrested in the U.K. as '... by fennecfoxy on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @11:54AM (#32913463)

Totally agree. My point is view at the moment is that QEII was the last true royal, ie she had such close ties to the monarchy of old.

I think from KCIII onwards things will start to change as it becomes apparent that he and his descendants aren't really representative of the "the good old days".

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