Queen of England question....

Extremely fake image 1000% concerncerd with maintaining their power. Ultimately controls the corporate media, thus all the favorable “free” pr coverage of embittered weddings, etc.

If you go to Europe you feel the weight of their history and it’s impact on their present day culture and society. Not too long ago I was standing in front of some Roman walls. 2000 years old or something like that. Damn! I just sat and contemplated for a bit. I’ve also been reading a lot of euro history, Rome through Middle Ages. USA is a drop in the bucket. In many ways I believe that’s the root of our best attributes, the root of our success.

The more history you read the more you realize how little you know, how much there is to know.

John Utah wrote:

If you go to Europe you feel the weight of their history and it’s impact on their present day culture and society. Not too long ago I was standing in front of some Roman walls. 2000 years old or something like that. Damn! I just sat and contemplated for a bit. I’ve also been reading a lot of euro history, Rome through Middle Ages. USA is a drop in the bucket. In many ways I believe that’s the root of our best attributes, the root of our success.

The more history you read the more you realize how little you know, how much there is to know.

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Amazing that the British monarchy has relatively recent German lineage and there are allegations that the House of Windsor negotiated with Nazis to remain in power if England lost the war. I believe it and it shows how much they value the lower classes.

The monarchy is a very neat way of separating the Head of State from the Head of Government. The Head of State does all the ceremonial duties while the Head of Government actually runs things. If you have an elected Head of State then politics creeps into the position and conflicts can arise between the two positions such as in France. In Russia power resides in whatever position Putin is occupying, Prime Minister 1999-2000, President 2000-2008, PM 2008-20012, President 20012-today. I assume in 2020 he will become PM again. Dmitry Medvedev is his willing alter ego filling the redundant other position.

In the US the Head of State and the Head of Government is the same person, the President. Though in the 1870s in the United States, in the aftermath of the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson and his near-removal from office, it was speculated that the United States, too, would move from a presidential system to a semi-presidential or even parliamentary one, with the Speaker of the House of Representatives becoming the real center of government as a quasi-prime minister. This did not happen.

One effect of this combined power in the US is the resulting increased importance of the flag and traditions such as the Pledge of Allegiance. It is much easier to demonstrate your patriotism through showing respect for these symbols than for some person and party you voted against.

I am not saying the monarchy is good or bad, but it is interesting.

German, French, Russian, English, etc. All intertwined, all related. Look at WW1. The Russian leader was a first cousin to the Queen of england or something like that.

I'm an anti-monarchist but your questions seem to have so many misconceptions in them it is hard to know what you are even asking or whether you are even asking anything.

For the overwhelming majority, the royal family make no impression on their daily lives.

Gotcha. It’s a mix of assertions and questions.

I don’t buy that the Windsores have no influence on politics or lives of people. They would be out of “office” if that were the case.

The typical pissant US Rep/Senator makes all sorts of deals, compromises and acquiescence amongst the political class to stay relevant for re-election.

I’m sure it’s no different in England and we are expected to believe the royal family really has a hands off influence policy?

England just gladly foots the bill for the

royal families oppulent existence, estates and heavy security?

The other royals houses... can they vie for power? Could the Windsores ever be knocked from power?

Surely they have to power play everyday to keep their influence (abuse).

I get the nostalgia and identity of the past traditions, but I’m certain they are not a just “figure heads” and I’m sure playing the “we’re just symbolic” plays into their longevity.

"Windsor" is a made up name taken to remove the links to the actual family, which was German. Germans were public enemy number 1 b/c of WW1 so they dropped their titles with the German houses and invented the house of Windsor.

So basically, the royal family is German.

Our Queen is also head of state of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Island, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis.

There are 53 nations in the British Commonwealth and at the last Commonwealth Games, held this year in Australia, there were team entries from 73 different states.

All who were once countries in the British Empire, the greatest empire in modern history.

John Utah wrote:

If you go to Europe you feel the weight of their history and it’s impact on their present day culture and society. Not too long ago I was standing in front of some Roman walls. 2000 years old or something like that. Damn! I just sat and contemplated for a bit. I’ve also been reading a lot of euro history, Rome through Middle Ages. USA is a drop in the bucket. In many ways I believe that’s the root of our best attributes, the root of our success.

The more history you read the more you realize how little you know, how much there is to know.

I am English and I agree we have a long history. Your region also has a long history. Unfortunately you killed and marginalized most of the original inhabitants. Granted, many of the butchers who did this came from my country. Anyhow, I am one Brit who would be happy to turn all the royals out of their cushy houses and make them get regular jobs. Ta ...

Their" jobs" are arguably harder than 95% of jobs. Some of them also had regular jobs too.

The English, Germans, Swedes and others who came over here possessed the right stuff. We are their descendants. You come from the people who stayed home, the timid, the weak, the subjects and servants.

Op.. wrote:

The other royals houses... can they vie for power? Could the Windsores ever be knocked from power?

Surely they have to power play everyday to keep their influence (abuse).

I think you have been watching too many episodes of Game of Thrones.

For "other royal houses" you have to go back to the Stuarts then the claimant would be Franz, Duke of Bavaria. Or further back to the Tudors, Teresa Freeman-Grenville, 13th Lady Kinloss. Or back to the Plantagenets, Simon Abney-Hastings, 15th Earl of Loudoun. However, as the York line was junior to the Lancastrian line you really should go back to John of Gaunt, then the Plantagenet claimant would be Henry John FitzRoy Somerset, 12th Duke of Beaufort.

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John Pilger wrote:

I am English and I agree we have a long history. Your region also has a long history. Unfortunately you killed and marginalized most of the original inhabitants. Granted, many of the butchers who did this came from my country. Anyhow, I am one Brit who would be happy to turn all the royals out of their cushy houses and make them get regular jobs. Ta ...

Their" jobs" are arguably harder than 95% of jobs. Some of them also had regular jobs too.

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John Pilger wrote:

Royalty is stressful wrote:

Their" jobs" are arguably harder than 95% of jobs. Some of them also had regular jobs too.

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You know it's true. The males are always in the army and then they basically have to do public duty for the rest of their lives. Wasn't Will a helicopter rescue pilot?

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John Pilger wrote:

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You know it's true. The males are always in the army and then they basically have to do public duty for the rest of their lives. Wasn't Will a helicopter rescue pilot?

Give it up mate. You have no idea what you are talking about. Those who slaughtered the native Americans were not tough they were ruthless cowherds. And we aren’t impressed by playboys born with a silver spoon up their arse who seek their thrills in the forces for a few years. There are heroic people on planet earth in all nations, and they are not the ones with a guaranteed life support system. Grow up.

observer_of_things wrote:

"Windsor" is a made up name taken to remove the links to the actual family, which was German. Germans were public enemy number 1 b/c of WW1 so they dropped their titles with the German houses and invented the house of Windsor.

So basically, the royal family is German.

We need that lisping little hottie Lucy Worsely to sort this out, straightaway.