How Do Americans View The British Royal Family?

[B.A. Baracus]

On Uk Tv at the moment theres alot of people mentioning the upcoming wedding of our delightful prince William and his soon to be missus. They also mention how excited us Brit's are at this wedding and the joining of two basically normal people who happen to be very rich and 'royal'.

I want to tell you i care, but i dont. It's just two people who are in love getting married, they are no more special or important than the rest of us.

But that's just my opinion.

Over here word is that American's love our Royal family, you wish you had one, your all very excited about the wedding and most have a ambition to see Buckingham Palace.

How true is this? what's your opinion of the Royal family?

 

[Superwoman Prime]

How true is this? what's your opinion of the Royal family?

In my experience, none of us care one way or the other.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

pish posh and apple sauce.

 

[Figs]

I still find "royalty" to be a bit absurd.

 

[B.A. Baracus]

I love you all even more.

 

[AndThePickles]

Honestly, I don't follow the royal family, and I don't care about this wedding that is very much all over the American news. A couple of my coworkers are really excited about it, though, and want to make sure they can watch it live.

 

[Hurm...]

In my experience, none of us care one way or the other.

Same. I lived in the States most of my life and I always thought the idea of royalty was ridiculous. The fact that the Queen and her family get so much attention is stupid in this day and age.

 

[Franklin Richards]

I like the pageantry. It's fun.



I'll tell you why average Americans don't care. It's because it involves learning. Being interested in the Royal Family means you have to know what words like "Plantagenet" mean. And we is don't want nones of that.


Learning is stupid.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

I have never liked the idea of royalty, or anyone placing themselves above others in that kind of class hierarchy.
I've always thought it was crazy to see all these working class families, struggling on the breadline, with pics of the Royal family up in thier living rooms. My mind boggles at that concept. The taxes that should be creating better lives for ordinary people are going to these parasites, and you have brainwashed ordinary people going along with it.
It is all a lot of outdated nonsense, and the only reason the Royal family escaped the French revolution was because there was an ocean between them, that is why they are still in existence.

 

[B.A. Baracus]

I have never liked the idea of royalty, or anyone placing themselves above others in that kind of class hierarchy.
I've always thought it was crazy to see all these working class families, struggling on the breadline, with pics of the Royal family up in thier living rooms. My mind boggles at that concept. The taxes that should be creating better lives for ordinary people are going to these parasites, and you have brainwashed ordinary people going along with it.
It is all a lot of outdated nonsense, and the only reason the Royal family escaped the French revolution was because there was an ocean between them, that is why they are still in existence.

I could not agree more. Very well said.

 

[bored]

I don't care about the British royal family. They have no bearing on me as an American (since they don't exactly have control over foreign policy, as far as I know).

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

I don't care about the British royal family. They have no bearing on me as an American (since they don't exactly have control over foreign policy, as far as I know).

Ah, they don't decide anything officially on paper, but they all meet up at the Bohemian Grove every year, shapeshift back into lizard form and decide what to do with the rest of us.

 

[B.A. Baracus]

They dont really have a bearing in the Uk, these days they are more like that rich family down the street who keep going on holidays and have a racist homophobic Grandfather.

 

[NHawk19]

I can appreciate the history behind royalty and the need for the tradition. However times have changed and their usefulness and their relevance is slowly dwindling. I honestly don’t care about the wedding or whether Kane ever gets a Batman mask.

 

[Hurm...]

I will be surprised if Kane doesn't get a Batman mask. It will strip the very fabric of reality.

 

[Erzengel]

Maybe if they had attractive princesses?

 

[NHawk19]

Yah you'd think the future King of England could do better

 

[B.A. Baracus]

Maybe if they had attractive princesses?

Anne does have horse face.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

Yah you'd think the future King of England could do better

Dude, William is the horse faced one, Kate is the pretty one.

Apparently the horse face is the easiest form for the shape shifting lizard to change into, hence why they are all a family of buck toothed MrEds.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

It is all a lot of outdated nonsense, and the only reason the Royal family escaped the French revolution was because there was an ocean between them, that is why they are still in existence.

Great Britain never had a violent revolution that abolished the monarchy because they adopted a constitutional monarchy about a century before the French Revolution occurred. The king/queen is only the head of state, not the head of government.



As for my view, I'm a European history buff so I enjoy it from that perspective. It's not my country and the royal family doesn't wield any significant political power anymore so I don't really care.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

Great Britain never had a violent revolution that abolished the monarchy because they adopted a constitutional monarchy about a century before the French Revolution occurred. The king/queen is only the head of state, not the head of government.

I just assumed the revolution that was going on in France and elsewhere would have carried on into Britain if it had been joined onto the rest of Europe, regardless of whether they were in governing power or not. I have heard that kind of comment being made before, and it made sense to me.

edit: i don't know too anything about it really though, what the revolutionaries were about, and whether they would have just smashed their windows too. I only studied twentieth century history in school.

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

I like the pageantry. It's fun.



I'll tell you why average Americans don't care. It's because it involves learning. Being interested in the Royal Family means you have to know what words like "Plantagenet" mean. And we is don't want nones of that.


Learning is stupid.

 

[CrashNburn]

i honestly dont care and i dont know of anyone in my life who does either. Maybe the news cares???

 

[Yurka]

I could care less. Its not like many of them have done anything great to be proud of, most are just born into privilege. I remember when Diana died, while sad as it was, the amount of people who were genuinely shaken up by it kind of disturbed me. But thats just me.

 

[B.A. Baracus]

I should really google Plantagenet.