is the British royal family as awful as Netflix says?

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  • KwesiKwesi Shipmate
    Fr Teilhard We're RELATED ... !!!

    OH, MY GOD !!!!!!
  • Kwesi wrote: »
    Fr Teilhard We're RELATED ... !!!

    OH, MY GOD !!!!!!

    You can choose your friends but you can't choose your family...

    I'm afraid that I'm firmly in the republican camp - time for the UK to grow up and either have a Norwich Royal Family (very few on the pay roll, no real constitutional role) or a republic like Ireland or Germany (non-celebrity President, Parliament/Prime Minister has the largest role). I gave up watching The Crown when I realised that I disliked all of the characters. I don't imagine I would be much more taken with their real-life counterparts.
  • I presume you meant "Norway Royal Family"

    Unless there's a Kingdom in East Anglia that I am unaware of!
  • I presume you meant "Norway Royal Family"

    Unless there's a Kingdom in East Anglia that I am unaware of!
    I was going for Nordic, which would fit with East Anglia a thousand years ago, but spell-checker took over!
  • BelisariusBelisarius Admin Emeritus
    edited January 6
    Is it true that the Queen technically has the right to veto an act of Parliament (though, of course, the Monarchy would be abolished immediately after she did it once)?

    If that is so, reminds me of a small Non-Profit I'm in that got its Accident Insurance back in the 1950s--technically we have it, but if we ever have to actually use it the rates will skyrocket and we'll have to fold.
  • Rev per MinuteRev per Minute Shipmate
    edited January 6
    Belisarius wrote: »
    Is it true that the Queen technically has the right to veto an act of Parliament (though, of course, the Monarchy would be abolished immediately after she did it .

    Every Act of Parliament requires Royal Assent (as does every Act of Senedd Cymru/Welsh Parliament, Scottish Parliament and Northern Ireland Assembly) to become law. The last monarch to decline to give her Gracious Assent was Queen Anne, d 1714 - the last Queen of England and the first Queen of Great Britain.
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    I presume you meant "Norway Royal Family"

    Unless there's a Kingdom in East Anglia that I am unaware of!

    I thought he wanted the queen we share to be the non-existent one of Norwich.
  • Gee D wrote: »
    I presume you meant "Norway Royal Family"

    Unless there's a Kingdom in East Anglia that I am unaware of!

    I thought he wanted the queen we share to be the non-existent one of Norwich.

    Perhaps this is from the next season of Game of Thrones.
  • Gee D wrote: »
    I presume you meant "Norway Royal Family"

    Unless there's a Kingdom in East Anglia that I am unaware of!

    I thought he wanted the queen we share to be the non-existent one of Norwich.

    Perhaps this is from the next season of Game of Thrones.

    Covid-secure and post-Brexit version, travelling no further than the Wash for filming. Of course, Dad's Army was (partly) filmed in Thetford, Norfolk, so perhaps the Iron Throne could be protected by the Home Guard?
  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    Why stop at Queen of Norwich? I think we've established elsewhere we're all descended from some randy Plantagenet or another, so it just remains to ascend the throne of wherever you happen to live.
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    Firenze wrote: »
    Why stop at Queen of Norwich? I think we've established elsewhere we're all descended from some randy Plantagenet or another, so it just remains to ascend the throne of wherever you happen to live.

    All????? I suspect that some new neighbours would not, and quite likely they don't know of the Plantagenets. And at least one Shipmate that I can think of would not claim such a descent either.
  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    Beowulf the Geat. Ashurbanipal. The Sun Goddess. Pick your ancestor. Anyone disputes it, give them a hard stare. Then get on to the local clergy and a firm of caterers, tell them you want a Coronation Thursday fortnight.
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    edited January 11
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