Insider
Opinion
Why do we still care about
the Royals?
If you frequent the news, mainly news apps, you’ll notice that there will
always be at least one or two articles about the royal family: Meghan Markle,
Meghan Markle’s baby, Kate Middleton, Kate Middleton’s 400 th vacation of
the month with her darling family. It’s always filled up with random news
about the royals, and I ask…why do we even care anymore?
While they are the figure heads
of our country, and many say
they still bring in a good por-
tion of tourism, I can’t help but
wonder why we still care so
much for the Royal Family. For
a start the royals don’t even
have much power over our
country, aside from a few du-
ties. In terms of the law and
politics the Queen is not sup-
posed to have a political stance
and cannot participate in vot-
ing, the Queen also does not
create laws. Instead, when Par-
liament goes to pass a law a
process called Royal Assent
happens where the Queen gives
the laws a stamp of approval,
though the power is in her
hands to stamp it no law has
even been rejected since 1707.
On top of this the only other
power she has is to dismiss and
select a new Prime Minister,
beyond these two duties most
of what the royals do is to turn
up to and host events. We hold
a lot of admiration up to these
people who don’t even do
much for the country aside
from simply being figure
heads, and with the marriage of
William and Kate, as well as
Harry and Meghan, the royals
have turned into the topic of
gossip and are like a soap
opera.
see Emma herself or person-
ally visit her to express re-
morse. After news surfaced
of the crash, with Phillip not
wearing his seat belt and
many people saying the crash
was his fault due to his reck-
lessness when driving, he has
not faced any legal repercus-
sions! His solicitor even said
he could avoid prosecution if
he hands over his license. So
The car crash Prince Phillip was in what did he do? He handed
over his license…and that
was that. No consequences
Let me ask you a question, if some lady down the for his actions. If that was
one of us, we’d be facing
road from you got pregnant, or decided to spend
time in court.
half term taking her kids swimming, would you
care? If not, why do we care so much when this
happens to one of the royals? Recently in the news While I understand that many
I’ve seen tons of articles talking about Meghan’s people do like the royal fami-
baby, the ‘drama’ between Meghan and Kate, and ly and don’t see anything
other gossip regarding the two, but none of it has wrong with them, I personal-
any significance. If you yourself are interested in ly feel as if they are too over-
the royals and like them, then that’s great! Person- ly glorified within the media,
ally, however, in my eyes the royals are simply
and in general, and I wonder
just very privileged rich people that many people why so many people hold
over glorify in the media.
them up with such high re-
gard.
One thing about the royals that annoy me is that
due to their status and riches they don’t face as
strict punishment for things they do as us common
folk would; just look at Prince Phillip’s car crash.
Firstly, even though Phillip had apologised to the
victim of the crash, Emma Fairweather says she
has yet to receive any apology or compensation
from Prince Phillip. Even if Phillip released a pub-
lic apology, it’s still ridiculous that he won’t even
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