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Originally Posted by Lilly

That's never going to happpen though, is it? She can't help being born into her role, a role she never would have had to take if her uncle hadn't abdicated. She's always done her best. She's never going to have to queue for her pension or wait for a hospital appointment like us because she's the Queen and she's never experienced poverty but she can't help that.

Poverty is hard work and the Queen has her every need catered for so she wouldn't know much about that but that doesn't mean that she doesn't work hard as Head of State with her engagements, meetings etc.

No it is never going to happen, but that isn’t the point.

She knows as well as did her father, grandfather/mother before her that the privileged position that they hold/held was down to their forbears who killed and pillaged the land for that land to take possession of it. Some they gave away to ‘favourites’ for services rendered. Like boot licking. But the rest was kept for themselves and granted to off spring.

No death duties there. Yet we get clobbered if we leave a substantial amount of property to our off spring. A land owning farmer cannot leave his land to his son/daughter without losing a chunk of it to the state because of death duties.

If poverty is hard work and the queen has every need catered for then life must be a doddle.

Royalist sycophants always trot out the ‘she works hard’ excuse without defining what hard work is.

Hard work is getting up each and every morning (except holidays) at some ungodly hour, battling your way to work to spend some four hours at the desk, shop, factory or behind the wheel of a lorry etc, taking a break for a quick snack and then another four our stint working for a wage only marginally above the legal minimum, then battling your way home to do some housework before tumbling into bed exhausted.

I doubt if the queen has ever had a duster in her hand let alone loaded a washing machine and then ironed the contents.

Hard work! She doesn’t know the meaning of the word let alone actually done some.