The Royal Fucking Wedding

I actually studied at St Andrews when he was there-I don't have anything against him personally, and out of what is a pretty rotten bunch he's the only one that seems to have his head vaguely wired properly.

But coincidentally, the only press agency that breached his privacy when he was there was that of his uncle. Millions were spent protecting him and he wandered about without protection in a hermetically sealed environment, where all the residents had to put up with the explosion in CCTV and monitoring that went on, not to mention the inflation in prices due to the university cashing in on the surge of applications and causing a housing crisis. It got so expensive that I actually left before my final year and studied abroad instead.

That may not be his fault, but it's a two-way process where his freedoms meant everyone else had to be security screened and live under surveillance. His charitable activity is laudable, but then, it still doesn't excuse the fact that the whole dynasty live at other people's leisure, and for all the trade roles etc that these people occupy they are actually compensated by the state.

As for the rest: The Duke of Edinburgh is a continual embarrassment to himself and the UK, as is Fergie and Andrew 'Special Trade Envoy' to the rich and corrupt. Meanwhile, Prince Harry trots about doing things like dressing up in a Nazi uniform for japes-they represent the country too, don't they? And the values they espouse don't really square up with the ones you are citing, despite the wealth and privilege they enjoy.

You can say what you want-the very fact they exist is anachronistic to living in a fair, equal and democratic society. Because some of them occasionally look past their own self-interest or occupy roles of state doesn't change that.