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Clearly you know NOTHING about Monarchy, their history and traditions.

You’re getting it twisted because of this whole “the royal family are racist” baloney

The reaction to some model complaining on TV is not why MOST people hate the british monarchy.

Personally my grandmother's civilian ship was fired on by the british navy because ... well fun!

British Navy incident........hatred of the royal family. Not entirely sure where the connection between the two is. Maybe it’s misplaced anger

In the same way a person in modern Afghanistan might hate the American government for being at a wedding where a drone strike happened; seems pretty straightforward to me :)

Others in this thread say that a key purpose of the monarchy is as a unifying symbol, if so then this seems like fair game.

This is an opportunity to educate. When you make comments like this what you're actually doing is locking in someone's opinion by making them defend it against nothing.

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