The British Monarchy

Psychedelic Casual said:
The press don’t half fool people.

If you were due to have a life saving triple heart bypass operation on Monday, you’ll still be having it! They just use photos of surgeons in the middle of an operation next to that headline to get people overexcited.

It’ll be people like Dave from Withington who was going to have a check-up because he’s got crabs and the crab consultant has got the day off, that’ll be cancelled.
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Won’t somebody think of the nippers?
 
WNRH said:
It's impossible to ever know.

Buckingham Palace will be one of the most visited places in Europe but there will be no official figures because it's free to look at as you can't go in like you can at Versailles.

Versailles gets around 10m visitors per year but they are all ticketed. I would imagine a guess that at least double visit Buckingham Palace and not just because it's free but because it's the official residence of the Queen (or now King)

Versailles became a museum nearly 200 years ago.

It's akin to Anfield becoming a museum, it would get visitors but not as many as it does with the current occupants there.
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Are you comparing ticketed visitors with sightseeing?

Buckingham Palace has about half a million paid visitors a year - mostly because it's hardly open, so it's Versialles that has twenty times as many.

Buckingham Palace may have more sightseers than Versailles has ticketed visitors, but that's not a like for like comparison, as most places are likely to have more people popping along for a bit of a look, or hopping off a tourist bus, than paying £20 to go inside. I've been to see loads more places in Paris as a sightseer than I have been inside.

There was even a survey about ten years ago, which found that more Brits had "seen" the Eiffel Tower, than Buckingham Palace.

I'd put money on the Palace getting many more visitors than now if the Royal Family moved out, but it was open all year round. It's not like any royalty live at the Tower of London or Edinburgh Castle :)
 
A lot of this tetchiness will be down to grief but those sausage fingers must be a hindrance when it comes to stuff like this

 
BigJoe#1 said:
Whilst being happy to continue with the monarchy, the thing that really gets me is the fact that Eluzabeth has died with tens of millions in the bank and she will nit pay inheritance tax..... I would love to know on what grounds she is exempt.

That's all.
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Under a clause agreed in 1993 by the then prime minister, John Major, any inheritance passed “sovereign to sovereign” avoids the 40% levy applied to assets valued at more than £325,000.

www.theguardian.com

King Charles will not pay tax on inheritance from the Queen

Monarch is exempt under 1993 agreement but Charles will pay income tax as his mother did
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
 
Postman Pep said:
A lot of this tetchiness will be down to grief but those sausage fingers must be a hindrance when it comes to stuff like this

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He has a point to be honest. Might as well use a quill if you are going to fuss about with the tradition for the sake of it bollocks. Just give him a ballpoint.

Signing multiple books everyday for two weeks would drive anyone mad.
 
SJT said:
Get a room, I’m proud to be British, yes, I do know our dodgy past and chequered history, but, I’m not doing some seven para history rant on that shit - get a life! just paying respect - name me a country in the world thats squeaky clean. yeah, and if you don’t like it here, its fair to say - do one!
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Weird.
 
Eccles Blue said:
Pondering tongue in cheek time.

I just wonder what we used to do when our store opening hours were Monday to Saturday 8 to 6 or 9 to 5. Wednesday half day closed and Sunday closed all day?
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Most of the population starved to death and looked liked extra's from a Lowry.
 
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