What does your day consist of, get up, making fire feed yourself, put fire out, go to bed.
That’s your jolly life in France isn’t it. What do you do for charities and underprivileged and your country. Apart from run away for a few extra hours of sun, live in a country where the locals despise you really.
What about the rest of the UK? Do they get a say?
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That’s my point. Lazy bu99ers!
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Blimey! Where have you been hiding?
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I get up at the crack of lunchtime once the electric heating has started to do what it’s supposed to. Might do some work about the place or might go to a local bar. 40 years of working pays for my lifestyle, not you nor any royal. Do you see the distinction?
I was in the army for six years. On the 1st of every month i make a donation to a veterans hospital charity and to a children’s cancer chartity. Ive done much more physical çhatitable stuff in the past but I’m feeling my age these days. Nevertheless I hope ive ticked all your boxes. Despite my absence from Britain I still contribute to the lavish lifestyle enjoyed by the Windsors. They dont reciprocate.
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10 years of membership and this is your first post? You don’t seem to be a very cheerful soul, but welcome anyway.
Edit to add that this was directed at @Louise_Moore , not @kirsteastevenson !
Maybe the pressure’s been building up over time…
If it’s been building for that long a visit to a cardio may be wise!
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Under a bridge 
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Nah, a recent poster apparently…
I think that there may be many more readers than writers in this forum.
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Odd that it doesn’t state which one is making the request - there’'s lots of SoSs (apt acronym)
Royal.uk tells me it used to say “Her Britannic Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs” and Canadian passports still do say“in the name of Her Majesty by the Minister of Foreign Affairs”
Look at me pretending to care as if my whole post wasn’t a little bit of light trolling 
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Of all the urgent issues that need addressing in the UK right now getting rid of the Royals is way down the list, improving the NHS, social care, education, transport, immigration and having a better relationship with the EU should be the priorities.
Perhaps we should have this conversation again in 20 years time?
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This post is full of assumptions and criticisms that say more about the writer’s character than the member they so rudely address.
Trump has got away with almost everything! Musk got away with calling out Vernon Unsworth as a “pedo”. It was a lie but the court accepted that it was a bantering term commonly used in S.Africa. Destroyed Unsworth psychologically and affected his business very badly. Don’t ever assume that the public are great at voting for decent heads of state. We are NOT! We are too easily fooled by the rich and powerful!
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Err, do you think somebody should tell them? 
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In a civilised transition from a monarchy to a republic there would be long period of conultation and debate no doubt including at least one referendum, certainly to determine whether or not to retain the monarch as head of state then perhaps to apptove a written constitution, something the UK currently sadly lacks. I’d expect the monarch to concede gracefully and continue in his duties until the constitution was approved and elections could take place.
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OTOH one could argue a lot of people died to establish and maintain that particular line of monarchs, and just going quietly was dishonouring to their sacrifices. I wouldn’t particularly hold the view myself, but could imagine many might.
TBH Britain seems to be experiencing a period of turmoil right now, with the present government starting to look no better than the last to many. This would not be the time for such an upheaval.
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There has already been debate for not just decades but centuries, without the Republicans being able to garner enough support to come anywhere near the threshold of a referendum becoming appropriate.
Removing the Monarch has already been tried by Oliver Cromwell, and that went down so well that Parliament restored the Monarchy.
As for a written constitution, you only need to look across the Atlantic Ocean to see what trouble that causes. Such a document may be appropriate at the time it is written, but then a couple of centuries later it causes all sorts of problems, especially when the mechanism for changing it is very nearly impossible to fulfill. The American constitutional right to bear arms for example.
A constitution that is handed down verbally, and which recognises the need for change from time to time is far easier to negotiate, and thus the concept of male primacy within the hereditary line of Monarchy has been rectified without too much of a problem.
The Monarchy is evolving, and no doubt with the attitude of both His Majesty and the Prince of Wales, it will continue to do so at pace.
I suggest that it would be best to let things be for the present, as otherwise there is a very high risk of jumping out of the frying pan into the fire.
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