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Originally Posted by Rain Man
I find this interesting as well. I don't follow the royal family at all, so I don't know the mechanics of royalty. I know that they make their land from a lot of different properties, but are those properties owned by them or the government?
If Britain decided to "do away with royalty", what does that even mean and what are the results? Would the royals just shrug and continue being rich from the properties, or would that money go into the government coffers and the royals would have no income and start working at fish and chips stands?
I kind of wonder if anything would really change if Britain decided to abolish the crown. The royals would still be celebrities and that's essentially all that most of them are now.
I did hear something a while back that the queen participated in some national policy discussions and maybe she had to sign bills or treaties or something. Or she had to approve things like her own branch of government. But if she didn't approve, would it really count as a veto? I have no idea.
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They'd still be rich, I'm guessing. I've seen a few youtube channels who do things like show the family trees of various ruling families after they're out of power.
Somehow, when they reach the "surviving monarch" who would be the ruler of today, that person always looks filthy rich and important, wearing a suit with a bunch of medals on it or whatever. There's never a photo of just some guy as an employee at a used car lot in Kalamazoo. Or with his family at Disney World. They never say, "That's right. The presumptive Holy Roman Emperor of today is Harvey from accounting"