Maybe I just never moved in those circles so I was never exposed to them, but I lived in the UK for almost 25 years and I never heard anything but negative comments about the royal family, apart from the occassional thing from a very elderly person.
Last night, after the usual national and regional news broadcasts from 6:00 to 7:00 pm (a lot of which was about Phillip), the BBC scrapped all scheduled broadcast on all of it's channels to broadcast three hours of programmes about Phillip's life, his contributions to the country, his good works, how wonderful he was to stand by the queen so faithfully, and blah, blah, obsequious white-wash bullshit, blah.
So many people were pissed off that the complaints page on the BBC website crashed or something, and they set up a page where people are just asked to fill in their email to register their objection to how the Beeb handled things, with the promise that they'll eventually get the official response.
IIN to be sad at Prince Phillip’s death (even though he was flawed)
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A Brit who doesn't consider the death of someone from the royal family an apocalyptic catastrophe and can speak badly of the royals?
You're alright in my book.
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Almost all Brits dislike the royal family. It's more unusual to hear one of us say something positive about them.
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That's just plain not true. https://theferret.scot/ffs-explains-how-popular-royal-family-monarchy/
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Maybe I just never moved in those circles so I was never exposed to them, but I lived in the UK for almost 25 years and I never heard anything but negative comments about the royal family, apart from the occassional thing from a very elderly person.
We're not all that rare.
Last night, after the usual national and regional news broadcasts from 6:00 to 7:00 pm (a lot of which was about Phillip), the BBC scrapped all scheduled broadcast on all of it's channels to broadcast three hours of programmes about Phillip's life, his contributions to the country, his good works, how wonderful he was to stand by the queen so faithfully, and blah, blah, obsequious white-wash bullshit, blah.
So many people were pissed off that the complaints page on the BBC website crashed or something, and they set up a page where people are just asked to fill in their email to register their objection to how the Beeb handled things, with the promise that they'll eventually get the official response.