throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoWhat's the point of constitutional monarchies? Why even keep the monarchy in place if they aren't even doing anything?message-squaremessage-square126linkfedilinkarrow-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 · 1 month agomessage-square126linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarerumschlumpel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-21 month agoYou really think the tourists would stop looking at British castles etc. if the UK became a republic?
minus-squareKnuschberkeks@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month 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-up0·1 month agoVersailles gets fifteen million visitors a year
minus-squareKnuschberkeks@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agomaybe you don’t, but lots of people do.
minus-squareremon@ani.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoI’m pretty sure the people calculating the number could distinguish between tourism for castles and the monarachy.
You really think the tourists would stop looking at British castles etc. if the UK became a republic?
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.
I’m pretty sure the people calculating the number could distinguish between tourism for castles and the monarachy.