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Disgraced Andrew insists royal staff call him 'sir' and fetch beer (www.youtube.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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[–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

The line has been manipulated several times by Parliament, including the selection and elimination of kings.

The point of the royal family now isn't to be a defined lineage, but an agreed upon vessel to hold power when Parliament temporarily breaks. Even then, Queen Elizabeth II was kind of shit at it.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Not to mention that the current royal family was originally named Saxe-Coburg, changing it to a more palatable "Windsor" during the first World war (which was fought against subjects of the German Kaiser, who was a cousin of the British king).

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