Ojnab,

Who said anything about not remembering?
Do you think that you should be held responsible for the good that your uncle did?

"....it is purely man made snobbery which you obviously adore."

I don't adore it but I do admit to taking a deep interest in it, it's part of our general history and part of my ancestral history, at last count I had 30 Kings, 3 Queens and a lot of Royal Bastards, plus regicides, fratricides, traitors and plain common murderers, rapists and thieves in the family tree and a fair share of good common peasants.

Charles and Harry are both distant relatives, through Charlies's mother and though I've never met Harry, I have exchanged salutes with Charles but never been introduced. I have met Prince Phillip but only socially as a member of a car club of which he is the Patron, he is also a distant relative (all those bastards!!).
I have a Scottish title myself but I've never used it, I prefer plain Mister.

Lest politicians forget the Diggers wanted to be alive http://www.canberratimes.com.au/content/dam/images/1/m/r/f/l/p/image.gallery.galleryLandscape.600x400.dgl6.png/1429753680085.jpg

O Sung Wu, I do not have hate, you would have more hate than myself, you must remember it is not the ordinary person in the street who wants war of any kind, it is politicians creating wars, and in the past Royalty was well and truly in the front creating wars, you may be surprised many think as I do, I feel more for the poor and the ordinary people killed in any war, also for the poor in all countries, they are the people I respect, not people being born into a family of Kings & Queens just by an act of a root, they wear to excess different shoes, coats & hats at every outing while the poor live in hovels, once again I am not alone in that thinking, you obviously like wars, multi millionaires keeping us peasants to be used as war fodder, but not them, the Anzacs who went to war for King & Country went as second class citizens for the imperialist British gentry.
Many now are beginning to see through the lies we are fed daily by the media, which we are supposed to believe, thank goodness there are people not being led by them as you obviously are, perhaps when WW3 starts you may have wished you looked beyond your nose. You O Sung Wu hate more than I do, it is time you stopped propping up the Imperialist people running this world to the detriment of the poor.

".... they wear to excess different shoes, coats & hats at every outing...."
and if they didn't they would be criticized for not supporting cobblers, tailors and milliners, when the Queen buys a new pair of Wellies/whatever there is a downward effect and ordinary people make money.

Is Mise we can do without them, Of course everyone is buying what the snobs wear, only the stupid. It is excesses which are causing world problems

Hi (again) OJNAB...

Thank you for a better explanation of your exact position within the equation. No, I don't like wars, for the most obvious of reasons ?
Pillorying Prince Charles and his younger son, Prince Henry is a little unfair I believe. Charles has not served personally in an 'active area' in a theatre of war, as his younger brother Prince Andrew had (the Falklands). But you'd be well aware that his youngest son, Prince Henry has undertaken two tours of Afghanistan.

Therefore despite your obvious antipathy towards the Royals, you'd have to agree the above mentioned individuals have done their share of active duty ? And sure it could be reasonably argued that both would have received infinitely more, 'close protection' in doing so, than many others performing similar duty. Nevertheless 'animate ordinance' doesn't discriminate, between prince or pauper ?

My initial impressions of you, were not meant as a criticism, rather just an observation, nothing more OJNAB.