I can't get worked-up about it, to be honest. They have no power or influence, and they've been pushed to one side, an anachronism, to provide light-entertainment for tourists (it's an old argument but they are popular with tourists). And they do represent a certain side of England: moral, respectful, sensible (even if it's all an act and the minor royals are snorting heroin and bumming their aides) which I would like to keep, as a kind of balance to the technicolor Top Shop fuckery which surrounds me.
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