Edward VII was an active diplomat up to 1910. The Kaiser was Victoria's grandson and Tsar Nicholas' wife was her granddaughter.
The British good-sense and compromise didn't seem to get through to those 2 but then mad George was a bit short in that department. A box of chocolates, said Forrest Gump who couldn't spell real good.

We, yes us, do it in every thread, we at first take an honest look at whatever the subject is.
Then some of us,insult the author or each other, because we do not like his/her/her his/ opinion.
We get rude with one another, see my posts here and yes elsewhere.
FRUSTRATED, even annoyed that others can not see our point of view.
The debate suffers, how am I to explain my belief the British Royal family is while quite possibly nice, some of them, inbred and overpaid, that just maybe they are a thing we should, like most of Europe, have left in the past?
Ise Mise, ever willing to nit pick, demands I if not fade away explain my self.
And too calls for better reasons to explain my view we are better without them.
Better than being proud of my country, better than pointing out that not everyone likes the Royals, and in saying enough of my fellow Australians think as I do too, pleased a referendum has been promised by Labor
This is an open forum, we should if we wish, be able to talk about anything, holding a different opinion is not a crime

Foxy,

As we live in a far from perfect country, a country with multiple problems, health care (hospitals, doctors in remote places etc.)
education, road and rail infrastructure, water supplies and on and on.
Let's fix these before wasting money on voting on a republic.

There are many reasons not to bother with the republic debate but if we must have a vote then one thing that ought to be done is the barring of any person who has stood for or been elected to either a State or the Federal Parliament from ever becoming President.

Belly
Agree that you having your opinion is not a crime . Nothingburger is.
"we should, like most of Europe, have left in the past?"
good.
why?
Norway , Sweden , Denmark, Holland , Belgium, Monaco , Spain, UK. US has Elvis forever amen.

Belly,

"Ise Mise, ever willing to nit pick, demands I if not fade away explain my self."

It's not nit picking to ask you to explain what you mean, and no one wants you to fade away.

You have imputed that Charles is a useless coward and that migrants to Australia can never be true Australians nor can their children.

Ise Mise you have put YOUR spin on my words, I inferred nothing.
I am well aware of the service Charlie has given, too that his sons, even the one said not to be his have given.
It has always been a *thing* for the Royals to serve
Even Liz, our current Queen and her sister served during ww2.
We know of Lord Louis Mountbatten's service, even that he over looked India becoming a free country after ww2.
Take all that in to consideration.
But let me,,based on what I see and think,holding the view the man was badly damaged by his and his family's reaction after Lady Diana,s death, and his insistence in conversation with others that his mum is not to be called that, but at all times her Royal highness.
Like his rude dad the man is not lovable