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Not me mate, even though I am very much on the other side of the fence. I am a member of a couple of anti royalist / republican pages on Facebook and it absolutely does my head in when I see folk posting personal attacks on the members of the royal family as people. This is a fundamental disagreement over the concept of inherited social status and position in a modern democratic society and any attacks on that should be aimed at the institutions themselves, not against whoever happens to be queen, king or whatever at any given point in time.

As I never tire of pointing out to the sometimes hard of thinking on those pages, making the argument personal and especially against the queen who like it or not enjoys massive personal respect / popularity is utterly counter productive.

Anyway …. Citizen not subject

When MPs and MSPs take office, they have to officially declare an oath of allegiance to Queen Betty and make a vow to serve her.

How utterly idiotic is that.

I think I'll switch to being German, as they don't officially have a monarchy (though they are obsessed with the Saxe-Coburgs)