thread for KING CHARLES III (regnal name george vii)

look she married in, she didn't have to but she wasn't anointed at birth to a life of palaces and hunting grounds

I think the actual dividing line is between "they ain't no human beings" as the official status of the monarchy and the casual hand-rubbing misogyny that's drawn to the existence of Kate Windsor as a public figure who's a woman

she knew what she was doing marrying into this family, I can't think of anyone who has married into it more deliberately

(xxp) Actually, as of January 2924:

48% retain the monarchy
32% elected head of state
20% don't know

... 2024, that is

can't believe we've got at least another 900 years of these fuckers

I think Americans are more in favour of the British monarchy than the British are. A bit like the Beatles.

I think the actual dividing line is between "they ain't no human beings" as the official status of the monarchy and the casual hand-rubbing misogyny that's drawn to the existence of Kate Windsor as a public figure who's a woman

look she married in, she didn't have to but she wasn't anointed at birth to a life of palaces and hunting grounds

she comes from a long line of hideous horsey-faced upper-middle class English royal brownnosers - she isn't exactly anything close to a comrade, you know?

48% retain the monarchy
32% elected head of state
20% don't know

― Tom D (the first British Asian ILXor) (Tom D.), Friday, March 22, 2024 6:30 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

decent, is there any agitation for ending it, is it in the news do people talk about it or is it more accepted that this is just some shit thats gonna go on forever

The latter. Give it time though.

According to Jasper Selwyn, the then-careers advisor at Marlborough School, Kate was all set to study at the University of Edinburgh alongside two of her best friends. Having achieved 2A’s and a B, Kate even reportedly had accommodation for the prestigious Scottish university all sorted out.

However, Kate pulled out last minute and decided to apply for the quieter St Andrews University, after there was an announcement confirming Prince William was to start studying there in 2001. Kate then went on a gap year, starting at St Andrews at the same time as her future husband. 

yeah if youre only down 16% with no organizing seems like that number has potential to move

You will have noticed the lack of headlines stating the King has been receiving chemotherapy treatment, unless I missed something

they just say "treatment" and you do have to wonder if he has anyone around him to stop him just using homeopathy

there is no story there, he has beaten cancer with a of regime herbal tea and ginseng (and getting tossed off by his servant every morning)

I spoke with some dudes at a bar in Stockholm last summer, and they said that most people there more or less support their monarchy as some kind of 'unifying influence' but also those royals manage to maintain a much lower profile and don't announce 'lifestyle brands' etc.

xposts There's probably a leech farmer on the Royal Warrant list

it’s sad she was an amateur photographer rip

the Swedish royals don’t take public money iirc

yeah I think that's true.. they're already rich af

Are they there by the Grace of God too? Defenders of the Faith?

I’m in paris for vacation and toured the palace of versailles today, made me think about some stuff. anyway get better kate!

I think Americans are more in favour of the British monarchy than the British are. A bit like the Beatles.

Probably! I was sharing some of the spicier links and rumours shared here in a private forum of mostly Americans and was lambasted from a few for being so "negative" with attempts to shame me for my schadenfreude and gossip mongering once the cancer diagnosis was shared. While I'm not for outright guillotining them all, certainly tearing down the institution and never hearing from them again seems like an ideal compromise to me. The whole circus felt gross when I first became aware of it in the 90's. I feel sympathizing for them is as gross as sympathizing for Trump's family tbqh, maybe that's harsh but it's how I see it. Sucks for Kate and her kids, but my emotional response to the news is a flat line, if not disappointment that it's not spicier.

i have a neighbor who flew a trump flag forever then when the queen died they replaced it with the union jack, some twisted shit lol

Haven’t read the whole thread, but how does a dead person get cancer?

Are they there by the Grace of God too? Defenders of the Faith?

Decade or two

Happy to never hear about them ever again tbh.

― Tom D (the first British Asian ILXor) (Tom D.),

this x 1000!

this news makes me about as sad as when that fucker who played Jock in Dallas apparently died trying to land a helicopter in a lake. Pfft.

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), vrijdag 22 maart 2024 23:16 (yesterday)

not that this matters for the discussion here but it was actually the character who went missing after a helicopter crash, not either of the two actors who played him - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jock_Ewing

precisely the point I was making!

ahaha, ok

Will never get over how the answer to "how do we cover up cancer diagnosis?" was "I like experimental photography"

tbf we're not talking about people with a close connection to reality

Nope, true. But Charles came out with it straight away, don't know what the thinking was here.

Keeping her kids in the dark I guess.

Just don't buy it.

My experience of raising kids is that keeping bad news from them for months while you think of the best way to tell them is a bad idea, they don't have the associations we do with the word "cancer" and they pick up on the vibes anyway, if they have nothing to tie it to then their imaginations will invent even worse things.

a woman in her early 40s being diagnosed and treated for cancer is sad, and it's the kind of thing that would easily garner sympathy from the monarchy agnostics, so the idea that they didn't initially reveal it is bizarre to me. They can say it was for the sake of the kids and them having a normal life, but the oldest boy is third in line to the throne, he has never had and never will have a normal life regardless. And if they were worried the kids would see it in the media... would it not be traumatic to have them see countless articles about why mummy is missing and people speculating on that?

the calls for her privacy have me uneasy. I think everyone should have a right to medical privacy, but their lives are funded by public money. If you are a disability benefits claimant in the UK, your benefits are funded by public money, and you are expected to give details of your conditions in detail to claim, right down to how you manage to wipe yourself clean after using the toilet. It's degrading and abhorrent and the best you can hope for is a meagre amount to support your bills, while this family get the best of treatment and priority for it. I'm not saying it's right, but I can understand why people feel they are owed the right to know what's happening in the royals' personal business.

"the kids" in this case are all the weird bootlickers on social media i reckon

My experience of *being* a small child with cancer was to be told my illness was ‘a lump on your kidney’ and then precociously picking up the big family medical book when I was in first grade, looking up types of lumps that might be on a kidney and then interrupting my parents with ‘I had CANCER, right?’

If you are a disability benefits claimant in the UK, your benefits are funded by public money, and you are expected to give details of your conditions in detail to claim, right down to how you manage to wipe yourself clean after using the toilet. It's degrading and abhorrent and the best you can hope for is a meagre amount to support your bills, while this family get the best of treatment and priority for it.

Was trying to write something along these lines last night but I kept getting too angry and channelling my inner calzino (yes, I was wishing horrible deaths upon everyone in the monarchy, and eh, I only sort of feel bad about it).

a woman in her early 40s being diagnosed and treated for cancer is sad, and it's the kind of thing that would easily garner sympathy from the monarchy agnostics, so the idea that they didn't initially reveal it is bizarre to me.

This is an old school WASP thing, I thought? Having disease is a symbol of being impure and thus, lesser than. There's not much more to it than that, I think.

Yeah fuck em tbpfh, the health travails of oligarchs is just not something I’m about to lose a moment’s peace about, not even the bad one that begins with C, not even a ~mum~

wgaf

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Dance-death-ridinger-german-18thC.jpg

xps

If she had to apply for PIP (yeah of course she doesn't need to) even if you are going through chemo that isn't a guarantee it will be awarded to you. The accounts of cancer patients being turned down or needing to appeal/apply a 2nd time while falling into financial hardship has been a constant since it replaced DLA.

If the Royal Family thought they could cure Kate Middleton’s cancer by killing 10% of the population, the death camps would be open by dawn.

— Women for Wes (@Women4Wes) March 23, 2024

China, Russia and Iran are reportedly behind the spread of conspiracy theories, slurs and rumours about the Princess of Wales. Senior government figures are said to believe that the states deliberately peddled lies on social media in a bid to destabilise society. pic.twitter.com/xfDUlZ7gdf

— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) March 25, 2024

the ayatollah, Putin and the CCP did a good thing!

they at least did the funniest thing