It's the obsequiousness that I really can't stand
No problem with the institution of the monarchy per se but all that fetlock tugging gets my goat. I've never met a royal person but I'd like to think I'd look them in the eye, give them a firm handshake and be pleasant. I'm no better than them and they're no better than me
Totally agree. I have zero interest in the Royals and am often perplexed at some people who almost worship them as gods. I suppose they do a fair bit for charity & the current younger generation seem a bit more 21st century than the rest. They do go on a lot of jollies around the world and that's probably their only 'work' acting as ambassadors & UK sales people.
Having said all that, what gets my goat is the vomit-inducing cringeworthyness of our billionaire-clique-owned right wing press feigning over them, especially the Daily Wail. I recall on the day of Diana's funeral in '97 a news report that some shopkeepers who opened during the funeral were threatened by pro-royalists who deemed that they were't showing enough respect. That's what worries me. Like religion, you can be obessive as you like about something, but when you try and force it upon others, that's when you get dangerous.
God help us when the Queen buys the farm. It'll be wailing in the streets. On the bright side, Jacob Rees Mogg may implode (I'd love to borrow the Doctors Tardis & take him back in time to actually meet some of the royals who used to run this country and see how ruthless, dictatorial & mad some of them were).