Oh dear, Don, you've really fallen for the Windsor PR machine crap hook, line and sinker.

"selling off the tourist attractions which keep it alive"

Rubbish! York, the country's second most popular tourist city, has no 'royal' attractions . Come here any day throughout the year and you can hardly move for foreign tourists. Then there's Bath, Stonehenge, Trafalgar Square, the beautiful British countryside.... the list goes on an on. 'Visit Britain' hasn't even collated statistics on the monarchy as an attraction, which shows that it is not a key factor the the promotion of UK tourism. Suppose, for example, that Buckingham Palace was fully open to the public all year round, instead of just standing around outside - that would be far more of an attraction.

"I suspect that most of the people here who are constantly whingeing about the Monarchy would run a mile, if asked to work the hours that the queen does."

"she works a fourteen hours a day schedule"


What complete and utter drivel. Your evidence, please! To compare the royal lifestyle with that of police officers, nurses, doctors and many, many other hardworking people is totally absurd. The Windsors have no contracts of employment, no supervision, no appraisals. Quote from Mark Bolland, former press officer for Charlie: "the Windsors are very good at working 3 days a week, five months of a year and making it look as though they work hard."

If you're going to spout such crap, Don, perhaps you'd like to back it up with facts.