ilx ranks the royals

Princess Anne - but only because she seems to have a misplaced affinity for us Scots and is a good patron of the national rugby team.

The rest of the mob only conjure treasonous thoughts for me. Charles def the worst.

steely Anne - makes sense

Votin'for the American interloper on principle.

I think people wish death on them because monarchs tend not to go away if you just ask them nicely Treesh

who ordered louis xvi executed? it was before Robespierre

No, it wasn't. Robespierre was the one who said, "Louis must die so France can live" - or something like that - though he was jumping on Saint-Just's bandwagon to some extent. Also Robespierre made sure he let everyone know that he'd opposed the death penalty when everyone else was for it, he was in favour of it for Louis but not some poor wretch who'd stolen a chicken or whatever.

It was before the Committee of Public Safety and all that, but Robespierre was definitely instrumental in offing Louis Capet.

alright so this is appropriate then

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DchfNh_WkAEPMBF.jpg

have these people done anything bad enough to warrant wishing death on them?

I think people wish death on them because monarchs tend not to go away if you just ask them nicely

this is a good answer imo

yeah, what noodle said

aren't they just like kardashians now basically? they don't have any power. i know taxes support the monarchy but they also support amazon.

I'm not, by birth, a subject of the Kardashians and their offspring. Not yet anyway.

I mean we should also murder amazon xp

fair

the kardashians weren’t appointed by divine right either fwiw

have these people done anything bad enough to warrant wishing death on them? i know lenin killed royals but not everything he did is to be emulated.

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most of the current british royals seem like exceptionally spoiled and shitty ppl, to the point where i don't think i could really find someone to vote for in this poll. whereas when i read about the last romanov family, i always find myself feeling quite sympathetic for them. at any rate even if you think the tsar deserved a trial and execution i can't imagine anyone but the most lunatic tankie would cheer on the brutal massacre of young alexei and anastasia, etc., not to mention their servants and their *dogs* for fuck's sake.

And their elephant iirc.

Tbf they shouldn't have cowered behind it

The crossover in trajectories of Andrew and Mark Thatcher is quite interesting - squalid, grasping, scruple-free arms hawkers perpetually in awe of other more openly corrupt princlings and scions.

no one can reign innocently

OK so that was Saint-Just, that's the speech that got Robespierre all a-flutter.

I certainly agree that given the extremely limited amount of power the UK royals currently wields, indiscriminate murder hardly seems like a proportional response.

it’d be very discriminate murder imo

Yeah, we could just wing Harry and the in-laws

Pippa Middleton goes for a run in West London and distracts other runners with her bum

she's not even a royal though. surely she will be spared ilx's cruel revolution.

George Brett
Saberhagen
Bo Jackson
Quizenberry
Eric Hosmer

along with all other royal-adjacent figures, pippa will be given the opportunity to answer a thorough multiple-choice questionnaire to determine her ideological purity after the revolution occurs

no respect for steve balboni

i'm pardoning her

and meghan markle because she is american

no respect for steve balboni

Balboni's pathetic HR record standing for 30 freakin years is one of the most embarrassing things for any major league team

Why does this poll assume I have a "favorite royal" or that such a thing is even possible?

doesn't matter. voting is mandatory.

write in vote for King Edward Potatoes, which the original grower labeled the variety "Fellside Hero". Which sounds even worse tbh.
xxxp
Yeah I think this thread is as good as any to dis American Indie Rock royalty and Stephen Balbini's Shellac are a reet pile of rub imo!

american indie rock royalty vs. the british royal family

I voted for the big bottomed blood sausage

another prince andrew voter eh

lol

the royals aren't even that good at being the royal family - Diana was proof you can do it with more agility and charisma and populism.

that said, my grandmother's MBE for her work with adults with learning difficulties is her proudest achievement, and I kinda like that the source of that recognition isn't tied to a political party and the baggage that would entail. The royals are obviously not "politically neutral" but they have no real power, if they tried anything they know it would be game over for them.

Diana was awful.

no princess michael, no credibility

Diana was awful in the same way the royals are awful but she was better at doing what the royals do

afaict the Hanoverians have never been popular, apart from George VI, who was a late sub anyway.

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31 lickspittles

There was no option for "Kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out."

LOL no votes for the future King and his consort.

It's just symbolic, eh.

ffs! it's no wonder they want independence

Wait till you hear what happens to a house once the owner has been disappeared.

shit just got real

RIP. Heaven needed a human tampon.

brb gonna start manufacturing 'diana and charles: reunited in heaven' commemorative plates

I reckon the lizards have deliberately infected Charles, removing him from the succession at last.

the virus jumped from bat to man, and from man to lizard, and from lizard to bat again; but already it was impossible to say which was which
— george orwell, zoonotic farm

Chaz's tooth-brusher valet in self-isolation, emergency brush-training underway for the man who will be king

ffs no "looks like charles is getting coronated after all" jokes yet?

not even a special strain just for him

i keep reading this thread title in the Michael Palin in Life of Brian voice

theory: Prince Charles is a similar personality to Tony Benn in a lot of ways - in the later diaries Benn is forever coming up with plans and reports for how various problems could be solved, various institutions reformed and trying to press them into the hands of influential people in a way that reminds me of Charles and the black spider memos - this impression of frustration that they can't run things themselves, but coupled with untiring enthusiasm for their particular causes. I can imagine Charles looked on Benn's success in renouncing his peerage with envy - this impression that if only he wasn't cursed by being their heir to the throne then he'd be free to advocate for all his brilliant ideas without restraint. There's a bit in the diaries of Benn's personal friend and one-time political ally Chris Mullin where Mullin meets Charles and goes on at length about what a great guy he is, a serious thinker who is unfairly maligned, which seems a bit odd at first, but I think Charles reminds him of Benn. Maybe someone could write a novel set in an alternate timeline version of the 1980s where Charles becomes king and Benn becomes PM.