throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 days agoWhat's the point of constitutional monarchies? Why even keep the monarchy in place if they aren't even doing anything?message-squaremessage-square127linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareWhat's the point of constitutional monarchies? Why even keep the monarchy in place if they aren't even doing anything?throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 days agomessage-square127linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareremon@ani.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-214 days agoThey provide about 1.5 billion pounds of tourism revenue per year, far outweighing the sovereign grants they recieve from the the government.
minus-squarerumschlumpel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-214 days agoYou really think the tourists would stop looking at British castles etc. if the UK became a republic?
minus-squareremon@ani.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·14 days agoI’m pretty sure the people calculating the number could distinguish between tourism for castles and the monarachy.
minus-squareKnuschberkeks@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·14 days agosome if them would. Some people are just fascinated by the anachronism of having a king. A palace that once belonged to some king a few hundred years back is just far less interesting than a palace with a living, breathing monarch in it.
minus-squareSkua@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·14 days agoVersailles gets fifteen million visitors a year
minus-squareKnuschberkeks@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·14 days agomaybe you don’t, but lots of people do.
They provide about 1.5 billion pounds of tourism revenue per year, far outweighing the sovereign grants they recieve from the the government.
You really think the tourists would stop looking at British castles etc. if the UK became a republic?
I’m pretty sure the people calculating the number could distinguish between tourism for castles and the monarachy.
some if them would. Some people are just fascinated by the anachronism of having a king. A palace that once belonged to some king a few hundred years back is just far less interesting than a palace with a living, breathing monarch in it.
Versailles gets fifteen million visitors a year
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maybe you don’t, but lots of people do.