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Originally posted by jcmd62
No you Brits willingly live under the thumbs of a whole circus full of "Royal" Clowns that appointed themselves ay?
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Interesting point - though most would argue that the Royal Family have very little day-to-day, constitutional power. The common belief is that we keep them in Buckingham Palace so that the Amercan and Japanese tourist money keeps rolling in.
Having said all that, I reckon they still have
some influence... only a monarch could cause the collapse of a multi-million pound trial, at the highest court in the land, by saying... "ooooh, I just remembered something..." and face no prosecution.
'Clowns' is the correct term. 'Under the thumbs' is perhaps not.