I have been very ill recently and then when I started getting over it, my partner came down with whatever I had but his symptoms were more flu like.
But when I am ill I think. I started thinking about the Royal family here in the UK, the thing is we are their subjects and I get that if I ever see Queen Elizabeth I should bow, infact it seems I have to bow to most of them.
They have a whole dynasty going on. How many jobs are you born into?
But the thing I was thinking about was, they are rich, I mean really rich and yet some people in the UK are struggling with deciding about whether to turn on the heating or food.
And yet we get flooded by photos of them looking happy and fed. The thing is when I was researching this, I couldn’t tell, and looking at it nor could anyone else, tell how much the queen much less the royal family costs us.
Now I am not saying they don’t do anything for it, at 88 years old, she is still travelling the world with her 91 year old husband, a lot of the royal family are heads of various charities, but the Queen gets 12.5 million a year off the tax payer, the Prince of Wales gets 19.1 million and they both voluntarly pay taxes.
But 13 million people in the UK lives under the poverty line. How about if the Queen gives her money to those people? And they split the 19 million. Maybe its a crazy idea. With her estimated 80 million pounds, I am guessing she might not notice too much
The thing is, the last time we started to get pissed off with our royalty, we cut off his head and banned Christmas.
Its good to be crazy Sometimes 
And sometimes they try to eat so little so as to stay thin and stylish.
I agree with all your points- they should voluntarily give up most of their income, and work for a living just like anyone else but the beneficiaries should be very carefully chosen.
Nice dreaming !
Susie
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I like the Royal family, but the fact that the Queen is one of the richest women in the world, while she has subjects starving then maybe we should start doing something. Dont get me started on MP’s salaries
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At least as a token for X’mas they could give up their December allowances, don’t you think ? In the true spirit of X’mas ?
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Something very much like that and like you said make sure the people who were going to benefit were carefully chosen.
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Yes, I feel strongly about this- I wouldn’t want shams here; anyway, all this is wishful thinking and I don’t think this is going to happen in our life time.
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I agree with you but we might see the British royaly gone, although to be honest the Queen has naff all to do with the running of the country anymore
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Do you really think we could see the Royalty gone ?I mean, like, they have been around one family or the other for centuries, right ? This has become a history and a political lesson and debate now. 🙂
Susie
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Apart from that little gap with Cromwell the royal family has been around since 1066, I personally think their loss of power started with Prince John because now they are just an institution.
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I think the same about the Roman Catholic Church despite what they do indeed spend of their social mission.
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I do wonder how much damage the catholic church has done to the world with some of its views.
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