Time to get rid of the Monarchy?

[Kaitzilla]

No it does not, it is about the royals and the military,

Spoiler Lyrics :

God save our gracious King!
Long live our noble King!
God save the King!
Send him victorious,
Happy and glorious,
Long to reign over us,
God save the King.

Thy choicest gifts in store
On him be pleased to pour,
Long may he reign.
May he defend our laws,
And ever give us cause,
To sing with heart and voice,
God save the King.

Ahem, @1:45.

**Edit** (Sorry about that. Ya I added a bit more below)

Maybe a joker is adding lyrics and posting them all over the internet?

Some are pretty silly.

What are the lyrics to ‘God Save the King’, Britain’s national anthem?

The British national anthem ‘God Save the King’ is one of the world’s best known anthems. But did you know it has another five verses? Here’s all you need to know.

www.classicfm.com

 

[Samson]

Ahem, @1:45.

You see I linked the website of the inbred germans, not some google owned ad flinger. Also, you do know it is our national anthem. I am sure there are other versions about, but there is one official one that gets sung at events.

[EDIT] Did you edit your post? I had not noticed this egregious mistake:

Classic FM said:

What are the lyrics to the English national anthem?​

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It is not the English national anthem, but the British.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

At least they don't have to learn it in two or more languages.

 

[Takhisis]

So Andrew gets to wear his uniform and wants to dress as an admiral (even though he isn't one), yet Harry doesn't get to?

That's not right.

Of course not. But of course Harry's not being punished for anything.

Notably, without the need to house the royal family, you can actually do something useful with the obtrusive royal residences, like turn them into gardens and museums that actually benefit the public concretely in addition to being big tourist draws.

Hmmm, we should do something like that with the Kirchners' residences. A monument to folly, just on a less grand style (and quite inferior architecture).

I wonder what the Monarchy's view would be on changing the anthem from 'God save the King' to the more gender-neutral and all-inclusive 'God save us All'?

**Edit**
I've been informed that 'God save us All' appears in the lyrics 1 time already.
Excellent.

God save us all from the king.

 

[aelf]

how's that boot taste

I heard nationalist boomers love the taste of boiled leather.

 

[Takhisis]

I heard nationalist boomers love the taste of boiled leather.

Cuir boulli for your armour, or just the regular shoe leather?

 

[Kupe Navigator]

I still can't believe people think UK monarchy is same as Saudi monarchy.

 

[sophie]

I still can't believe people think UK monarchy is same as Saudi monarchy.

Well then it's a good thing you don't have to since nobody is saying they think that.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Prince William just inherited a 685-year old estate worth $1 billion​

By Anna Cooban, CNN Business
Updated 11:42 AM ET, Tue September 13, 2022
Royal assets

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/13/business/prince-william-1-billion-inheritance/index.html

 

[Kupe Navigator]

Well then it's a good thing you don't have to since nobody is saying they think that.

I don't know... people seems to think UK monarchy is just as oppressive as Saudi monarchies.

 

[AmazonQueen]

I don't know... people seems to think UK monarchy is just as oppressive as Saudi monarchies.

Either that or they just believe membership of a particular family is a bad criteria for becoming head of state.

 

[Kyriakos]

Saudis are on a different level of awful, yet that isn't a good reason to accept giving the UK royals billion-pound properties due to their last name (Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-Glücksburg).
What angers me a bit is that many of their supporters in the UK face very real and life-threatening problems, yet still project some ideal on the royals that simply isn't there.

 

[sophie]

I don't know... people seems to think UK monarchy is just as oppressive as Saudi monarchies.

Who? Be specific, there's only like a half dozen or so anti-monarchists actively participating in this thread, and I haven't seen any of them say anything of the sort.

 

[Kupe Navigator]

Who? Be specific, there's only like a half dozen or so anti-monarchists actively participating in this thread, and I haven't seen any of them say anything of the sort.

Didn't you used to say kill all royals?

Either that or they just believe membership of a particular family is a bad criteria for becoming head of state.

Saudis are on a different level of awful, yet that isn't a good reason to accept giving the UK royals billion-pound properties due to their last name (Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-Glücksburg).
What angers me a bit is that many of their supporters in the UK face very real and life-threatening problems, yet still project some ideal on the royals that simply isn't there.

What people need to understand is that royals are not really in charge. They act more like a symbol for Britain- a center of soft power if you will. They are symbolic of Britian. Real hard power belongs to Prime Minister. Truss has real power while Charles has symbolic power.

 

[Kyriakos]

They are among the top 10 richest people on the planet, and all that just due to their family's title.

It may have to do with England's fascination with its own (now dead) empire; the royal family represented the top of the hierarchy and all powers and distinctions flowed from there.

 

[Samson]

I still can't believe people think UK monarchy is same as Saudi monarchy.

It is not us that think that.

Spoiler Picture from up thread :

 

[Kupe Navigator]

They are among the top 10 richest people on the planet, and all that just due to their family's title.

It may have to do with England's fascination with its own (now dead) empire; the royal family represented the top of the hierarchy and all powers and distinctions flowed from there.

No Royal supporters deny that British Empire is dead dude. Heck even Queen her self didn't deny that British Empire is dead. She had been alive when all of its former colonies gained independence remember?

 

[Takhisis]

What people need to understand is that royals are not really in charge. They act more like a symbol for Britain- a center of soft power if you will. They are symbolic of Britian. Real hard power belongs to Prime Minister. Truss has real power while Charles has symbolic power.

Even Charles has more ‘power’ than Liz Truss.

 

[Kyriakos]

No Royal supporters deny that British Empire is dead dude. Heck even Queen her self didn't deny that British Empire is dead. She had been alive when all of its former colonies gained independence remember?

I wasn't claiming they think the british empire is non-dead. I spoke of dependencies and inferred allusions to a 'glorious' past.

Besides, if "the empires of the future are the empires of the mind", as Churchill said, it might be time for the royals of the future to be the same

 

[Kupe Navigator]

Even Charles has more ‘power’ than Liz Truss.

? Can Charles go against Truss? Truss is PM now and weather you like her or not she is the one passing bills and stuff.