Want to say that I appreciated Lox's honest, personal and revealing posts here.

But ffs, wtf is Harry anyway? If he can't properly do his job as an official ambassador for the UK then he needs to earn his livlihood in other ways.

I have my own somewhat bizzare take on the Royal Family, and see them as a useful focus for those numbnuts (aplenty!) who still need incarnate Gods to worship. IMO they are a pragmatically valuable saftey valve against the kind of fanatical religious Idiolisation of politicians which has occured in other parts of the world. The deification in the public mind of politicians, is IMO one hell of a dangerous thing! Do 'Royal Families', help to divert that type of mindless public Idolatry? I for one, think that they may do so. And most valuably too.

I also think that Plato got it right about the dangers of Democracy. Our Royal Family are *in no way* to be mistaken for Plato's ideal of Philosopher Kings, But then that's a whole other thread for a whole other forum...