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Mine was phrased as a question, I didn't want to lambaste you for writing in here.
Like I said I just want to understand what it's like living in a country with an (old and useless) institution as a monarchy, coming from a place where the only place you can read of kings and queens is in the history books, or in novels
Whopper-
I'm not calling you a troll but your question(s) are troll-y. You know the answer - which the monarchy themselves repeat all the time - which is that it is purely symbolic. Symbols are mutable and differ from person to person, community to community. A symbol of British values / a symbol of colonialism. Symbol of British power / symbol of a poisonous repressive class system. They give people a sense of self and place or make them feel like perpetual outsiders in their own country. As Lizzy and Phil the Greek were around from WWI give or take the last 100 year of cultural history is up for projection onto the crown
youramericanlover
How would you know what i do or don't do or what i have done / haven't done with regards to protest or speaking out against what i feel is important?
Or are you saying "you" as lumping every English/ Welsh, Scottish etc British person together?
You'll find the "natives" in the UK are now quite a diverse bunch of people with very different views on things and how to seek change.
Where are you from? Where are you FROM?? (being sarcastic with this last bit as this is a British trait apparently