On Saturday, April 10, 2021 at 12:44:43 PM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2021-04-10 11:45 a.m., jmcquown wrote:
> > On 4/10/2021 11:33 AM, cshenk wrote:
> >> jmcquown wrote:
>
> >>
> >> BTW, I consider all the jokes on his death to be in the worse of taste.
> >>
> > Very poor taste. The man didn't do anything to earn the ire of a bunch
> > of people on a cooking newsgroup.
> >
> I merely asked who would fill the vacuum. That vacuum would be the
> position, not the man. He was to the monarch. I suppose there may be
> some benefit to have a figurehead head of state, but the idea that an
> inbred family of aristocrats gets to set themselves above the rest of
> us, and to do so in accordance with a set of rules that they set up
> among themselves is way out of date.
>
> There are a lot of people in the Commonwealth who would have no problem
> with the abolition of the monarchy. I find it interesting that so many
> Americans are intrigued by the monarchy.... when they are boasting about
> how they disposed of it 250 years ago.

Yeah, I don't get it either.

I think it's mainly women, and it feeds into their "princess" fantasies.

Cindy Hamilton