[tiggertiny]

The Queen has "promoted" prince Charles to the most senior rank in each of "her" armed forces.

Charles can now hold his head up high if he visits North Korea where he will be able to promenade in various uniforms no doubt groaning under the weight of many medals!

Still it may add a few hundred tourists coming to gawp at our "Ruritanian" monarchy.

Meanwhile large numbers of generally undeserving civil servants and business types will be honoured for being paid well to do their jobs and a few ordinary folk will be given some recognition - handed down to them by their betters - for genuine good works in their communities.

A society still dominated by class division and a small elite who cling to a life of undeserving privilege into which they have been born.

[15Million℃]

What did he do to deserve this? Other than be a mummys boy.

[Doc Shmok]

Originally Posted by 15Million℃

What did he do to deserve this? Other than be a mummys boy.

What did she do to deserve to give honour away?

[boksbox]

Originally Posted by 15Million℃

What did he do to deserve this? Other than be a mummys boy.

I treat these titles with the same contempt as I have for tinpot dictators who bestow honours and military ranks on themselves.

[15Million℃]

Originally Posted by boksbox

I treat these titles with the same contempt as I have for tinpot dictators who bestow honours and military ranks on themselves.

Would he really feel 'proud' strutting around in these Uniforms like he really has earned them. Surely he knows, everyone knows he hasn't just come back from the front line. How silly.

[Nosnikrapl]

Originally Posted by Doc Shmok

What did she do to deserve to give honour away?

Well her satisfaction rating as head of state as of today is 90%. Apparently no other HOS in the world is able to come anywhere near matching her level of satisfaction from their people.

[batgirl]

Awww, mummy's little soldier. Bless...

[duckymallard]

Originally Posted by Nosnikrapl

Well her satisfaction rating as head of state as of today is 90%. Apparently no other HOS in the world is able to come anywhere near matching her level of satisfaction from their people.

That says a hell of a lot more about the stupidity of many folks, rather than her performance.

[boksbox]

Originally Posted by Nosnikrapl

Well her satisfaction rating as head of state as of today is 90%. Apparently no other HOS in the world is able to come anywhere near matching her level of satisfaction from their people.

Didn't take more than a few days for her approval rating to tank in 1997.

[zx50]

Originally Posted by tiggertiny

The Queen has "promoted" prince Charles to the most senior rank in each of "her" armed forces.

Charles can now hold his head up high if he visits North Korea where he will be able to promenade in various uniforms no doubt groaning under the weight of many medals!

Still it may add a few hundred tourists coming to gawp at our "Ruritanian" monarchy.

Meanwhile large numbers of generally undeserving civil servants and business types will be honoured for being paid well to do their jobs and a few ordinary folk will be given some recognition - handed down to them by their betters - for genuine good works in their communities.

A society still dominated by class division and a small elite who cling to a life of undeserving privilege into which they have been born.

Which I'd love to know how he earned them. I can't see him getting them due to putting his life in danger for someone. Unless the medals he's wearing are just typical rank medals perhaps.

[slappers r us]

paving the way for King Charles and Queen Camilla

[Doc Shmok]

Originally Posted by Nosnikrapl

Well her satisfaction rating as head of state as of today is 90%. Apparently no other HOS in the world is able to come anywhere near matching her level of satisfaction from their people.

Sure but if you attack Charles for being born into it, it seems logically to mention that she was born into it too.

[cpu121]

Originally Posted by zx50

Which I'd love to know how he earned them. I can't see him getting them due to putting his life in danger for someone. Unless the medals he's wearing are just typical rank medals perhaps.

All but one of his medals are commemorative Commonwealth medals:

QEII Coronation Medal
Fijian Independence Medal
Papua New Guinean Independence Medal
Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal
Canadian Forces Decoration and two clasps (A long service medal)
1990 Commemoration Medal (NZ 150th anniversary)
Saskatchewan Volunteer Medal
Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal
Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal

In uniform, he also wears stars representing the various orders (Garter, Bath, Thistle) that he is part of.

What he has earned are his pilot wings and his parachutist wings (the latter being somewhat in dispute as its unclear whether he completed an arduous selection course before undergoing Basic Parachute Course).

The other senior members of the Royal Family have similar commemorative/honourary decorations. Some do, however, have operational medals: Prince Harry (Afghanistan), Prince Andrew (the Falklands), Duke of Kent and Prince Michael of Kent (both have UN Cyprus peacekeeping medals from the early 70s). Prince Philip has a whole bunch of war medals from his naval service during the Second World War:

1939-1945 Star
Atlantic Star
Africa Star
Burma Star (Pacific)
Italy Star
1939-45 War Medal (with Mentioned in Dispatches oak leaf)

You should see the length of the lists detailing their overseas/non-commonwealth decorations they've been given!

[Leanna1989]

Originally Posted by 15Million℃

Would he really feel 'proud' strutting around in these Uniforms like he really has earned them. Surely he knows, everyone knows he hasn't just come back from the front line. How silly.

I think Charles has been told his whole life how special he is, so he doesn't really understand the concept of earning things. I don't see it so much in his mother or his sons, though. Elizabeth has worked hard at the monarchy her entire life and William and Harry seem to understand the value of hard work. Charles seems to have his head in the clouds, talking about political and scientific ideas that he doesn't have the qualifications to be talking about with any authority.

Why work for all these medals when they are just given to you?

Ironically, I'm watching a replay of today's baseball game between the Cardinals and the Royals.

[noodkleopatra]

...I just can't believe how much a few pieces of commemorative, decorative metal can wind people up. Get over it, I say.

[irishguy]

Originally Posted by Leanna1989

I think Charles has been told his whole life how special he is, so he doesn't really understand the concept of earning things. I don't see it so much in his mother or his sons, though. Elizabeth has worked hard at the monarchy her entire life and William and Harry seem to understand the value of hard work. Charles seems to have his head in the clouds, talking about political and scientific ideas that he doesn't have the qualifications to be talking about with any authority.

Why work for all these medals when they are just given to you?

Ironically, I'm watching a replay of today's baseball game between the Cardinals and the Royals.

Don't see how you figure that 'William and Harry understand the value of hard work'. Charles seems to have just as many official engagements as his mother while his sons are currently pretending to have 'real jobs'. The whole royal family doesn't really grasp the lives of most of their subjects.

[BomoLad]

Oh God have a day off. How can people's lives be so bereft of joy and distraction that they can't comment on something without some pseudo-Marxist condemnation of modern society. How can people get through the day?

[Leanna1989]

Originally Posted by irishguy

Don't see how you figure that 'William and Harry understand the value of hard work'. Charles seems to have just as many official engagements as his mother while his sons are currently pretending to have 'real jobs'. The whole royal family doesn't really grasp the lives of most of their subjects.

I'm speaking relatively here. I'm not sure any royal person can entirely understand what it's like to live as a non-royal middle-class person. However I think William and Harry seem to have a better grasp on real life and earning things than their father does. I think Diana had more compassion for people and was more down-to-earth than Charles, and I think her sons got some of that. Of course, she had her issues. She was no saint. Still, I think she influenced Harry and William to be considerate of how privileged they were, and that they need to do some work. I think they do more work than Charles. Looking at it from the outside, they seem less pompous and out-of-touch than Charles.

[tiggertiny]

The whole concept of the monarchy is outdated, and giving themselves and their numerous family members honours and awards of various sorts is bizarre.

What possible point is there in "giving" Charles the most senior rank in the armed forces? It merely underlines the utterly disconnected lives they lead from their so-called "subjects".

Worse still the monarchy underpins a class ridden political and social order that gives us Cameron and Osborne and sees a high percentage of top jobs in the hands of those who went to public school and Oxbridge.

The monarchy is a remnant of a past age kept alive because an elite see it as useful tool aided by the unofficial PR company employed by the royals, the BBC.

An organisation that almost has an orgasm when royal events take place and carries royal propaganda in almost every "news" bulletin.

[BomoLad]

Originally Posted by slappers r us

paving the way for King Charles and Queen Camilla

I think that path was established some time ago.

[stud u like]

Originally Posted by 15Million℃

What did he do to deserve this? Other than be a mummys boy.

He makes lovely bread.

[MidnightFalcon]

Originally Posted by duckymallard

That says a hell of a lot more about the stupidity of many folks, rather than her performance.

And those four words say a hell of a lot about you.

[glasshalffull]

Originally Posted by slappers r us

paving the way for King Charles and Queen Camilla

The Queen hardly needs to pave the way...unless you count being six feet under paving herself

[KezM]

Lol it really just kind of amusing that however loud republicans shout they still can't convince the majority! If we got rid of the monarchy tomorrow there would still be inequality in society whereever you look there are have and have nots. that is capitalism. As for them being out of touch - I don't know what the life of a starving child in Africa is like. Doesn't stop me having compassion! Such a dull overused phrase.

[duckymallard]

Originally Posted by MidnightFalcon

And those four words say a hell of a lot about you.

Why thank you so kindly for your personal remarks.

Why don't you find a bloody forum you like!