Lord how the mighty have fallen. And I didn’t even realize the full extent of it until the last few days…

There’s an extensive YouTube channel called Real Royalty, and occasionally I watch their videos, since along with being a lifelong royal watcher and Sussex supporter, I 1/

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also have a keen interest in royal history, particularly the Tudor period. This channel has tons of videos covering the whole spectrum of royal history—however, their “documentaries” on the current day crop of British royals reveals that the channel is unabashedly pro-royalist—2/

The phrase “slimmed-down monarchy” is growing more and more irksome. The #britishroyalfamily has about a dozen palaces and vast wealth that other European monarchies don’t come close to. #KingCharlesTheCruel wanting a “slimmed-down monarchy” does NOT mean a few of those 1/ palatial residences are getting sold off and turned into museums like the Palace of Versailles—fwi France takes in WAY more royalty-related tourism dollars than Britain does. “Slimmed-down” in this case means concentrating titles/wealth privileges among an even smaller group 2/