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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
Well, I guess I'm not aware of what her faults are. I don't know much about the Queen to be perfectly honest. What are her faults? The fact that she was a Queen? She was born into it.
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I think the faults are inherited as part of the institution. It's similar to the Catholic Church. The current or future pope might be more grounded and charitable person than the last, and may not be personally responsible for past deeds, but the wealth, privilege, and prestige seem inappropriate by modern sensibilities considering how it was gained. It seems hypocritical to bestow the positives gained from a past that they were not part of while still forgiving the past sins. Why can you inherit privilege and prestige from past family accomplishments you had nothing to do with, but not the faults and responsibilities?
I look at the British Royal Family almost the same way I do as other celebrity families whose descendants live off of an inherited class system, except with a history of bloodshed and oppression at the roots. It's fair to say the Elizabeth wasn't a criminal herself, but her status as a queen was due to many historical injustices.
There were also some things the queen did that signified that she still embodied classism and elitism. For example, she had concerns about Diana's commoner status when she married her son and allegedly never got along well with her partly because of that. She initially even refused to lower the flag when Diana died, which caused a lot of anger among people in Britain at the time. Diana was definitely born into an aristocratic family, but the nobility was so far removed that she was considered a commoner. When William married Kate Middleton, there was concern that she was not noble enough as well, they went out of their way to show she had some noble ancestors. The same thing when Harry married Meghan Markle, the queen seemed perturbed by it. Allegedly someone close to the royal family said the queen had concerns about how dark their children would be, which led to Harry leaving for America and abandoning his royal duties. I have my doubts that Harry is actually the blood child of Charles, but that is a different story.