" Nothing the Royals do has any significant impact on my life "
G-Force; do you know me? I think not. The operative word in the above point is 'my'. Duke of Edinburgh awards and the Princes Trust etc. do not apply and have never applied to me or any member of my family, and therefore my comment, far from being 'stupid' is in fact entirely accurate. An apology for your rudeness would be nice. Thinking more widely, the impact of the initiatives you describe (both of which are run by professionals with Royals as occasional figureheads) applies to a small minority of the population at large; hardly a justification for a monarchy on the scale of ours.