The Royal Family possesses more class and discipline in their little fingernail than Morrissey could muster on his finest day with a boatload of help. I’m embarrassed just looking at his picture and I’d want rubber gloves on to be near enough to shake hands. What a mess!

And to bpawk who spouted from the depths of obvious ignorance “...remove the royal family off the dole? It costs so much $$ with no return” may I suggest that the $21 million dollars allotted to the Royal Family each year by the government is an amount that is DWARFED by the hundreds of millions tourists deposit to private businesses and the government coffers.

Remove the Royal Family from the UK and you’ve removed perhaps the biggest reason people visit.  Empty, unused palaces, while perhaps interesting to look at, aren’t going to motivate too many to shell out thousands to go to England just to tour them.

What rock to people such as this Morrissey crawl out from under… and why in hell does the media pay any attention?

Why aren’t people clamouring to remove the royal family off the dole? It costs so much $$ with no return. Follow the example of the French, who make money off Versailles even though there is no royal family to pay for. It doesn’t belong in a democracy and it’s an embarrassment. What all the media show is that main stream media is owned by huge corporations who like to distract the masses from real issues with this expensive circus.

I would much rather have the pomp and ceremony of the royal family than the shattering reality that our own country has become - run by fascists.

And I would rather have their form of government where a person from across the aisle can get up and have their say while the prime minister has to sit there and take it and then get up and defend themselves in public.

Seems more democratic to me, queen or no queen.

I loved the Queen Mum and Queen Elizabeth seems like a decent person. Most of the Brits love their queen. Can we say the same about our president?