It must be nigh on impossible to determine precisely how much revenue the monarchy generates. As I and others have pointed out, Republics such as France and the USA continue to attract huge amounts of tourists. Do people visit the U.K. from Japan, New Zealand and the USA because of the monarchy, or is Buck Palace, Windsor etc just on a bucket list alongside Stonehenge, Madame Tussaud’s, Stratford-on-Avon, Edinburgh Castle and Hadrians Wall? Because that’s all the Monarchy are really, just Harry Potter in (slightly) different costumes and with (slightly) less arcane ritual.
And where does as this supposed vast revenue go and to whom? Does it benefit the U.K. as a whole? It certainly doesn’t seem to be doing much for the families in Scotland who can no longer afford school meals
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/06/families-scotland-school-meal-debt-aberlour
or the millions using food banks, who want food that can be eaten cold because they can’t afford the gas and electricity to heat meals
https://www.theguardian.com/society...tems-eaten-cold-mind-blowing-says-jack-monroe
Meanwhile we’re encouraged to celebrate one of the richest women in the world whose vast personal wealth mocks her subjects, who are expected to demonstrate due deference while she stuffs her chops with a banquet that costs as much as a struggling family will spend on food over six months.
You can delude yourself that it’s all about celebrating ‘Britishness’ and bringing people together for a good time. But you cannot escape that supporting the monarchy is, however inadvertent, a
de facto support of the idea of some people being innately superior to others due to an accident of birth, and that a particular human being has been appointed by God to rule over the rest of us, i.e. you support inequality and promote superstition.
The perpetuation of a feudal relic in the 21st century, is outdated, anachronistic, backward, elitist, ridiculous and downright offensive.
