I think they are as important as any other head of state. I'm merely pointing out that the countries for which they are head of state are countries that the US claims to be important to it.

Because the Queen (and one day, Prince William) is the head of state of both your most important military ally and your largest trading partner.

BECAUSE KATE HAS PRETTY HAIR

Sadly, not the Royals I was hoping for.

Actually the Queen has paid taxes for decades by choice. They are basically a tourist attraction now and bring in millions a year through tourism. Charles has a company that makes organic specialty cheeses or something and he donates the profits. His brother is a gross useless piece of skin but his kids and his…

They are not on public funding to begin with. Only the Queen and her husband are on official governmental payroll.

Technically they're in real estate and land development. The money the country makes off of leasing the royal family's inherited land/buildings is exponentially more than what the family receives in taxes.

Don't care, still LOVE the royal family. I'm not a patriot in the slightest and it hurts my lefty credentials but I can't resist rolling my eyes whenever people clutch their pearls about the cost of them.

I'm pretty sure most of them have paying big boy/girl jobs. be it army, PR or high finance, theater, arts, architecture, law, real estate management, etc, etc.

Most taxpayers only pay around 60p a year for them. Also you will probably find that when the Queen dies the opinion of the family will fall in the UK.

We don't want to have it both ways. We don't want men paying for our dates; we want financial independence. We don't want sole custody; we want a world where men and women are considered equally responsible for parenting. We don't want female on male rape to be treated less seriously than male on female rape; we want…

All you need to do is hop over to Gawker and read the contempt they hold us in. We never claimed to be perfect. But when we're not, oh, we're whiny, self-righteous, catty, outrage machines, man-haters, hypocrites. As if they never are? Pah. They wouldn't last a week as a woman in today's world.

"Women expect and get free everything- women get to choose their mates, while men don't- women get a pass from authorities- women get to be horrible without being called on it."

So being a pilot of a Royal Navy Helicopter isn't working. Ok.

They're not so bad. Harry served in Afghanistan twice, the Queen worked for ATS during the war (and hasn't stopped working since then) and Prince Philip, for all his racist faults, was a genuine WWII hero. You can disagree with their position, but as individuals they generally work pretty hard (except Kate).

The palace officials issued the original statement, not Prince William. He is known for his dislike of formality, which is one if the reason he likes the Middleton family. I seriously doubt that he gives a shit.

Are you suggesting that Prince William, who (among other things) flew helicopters to rescue people "Never worked a day in [his] life"?

because everything is more fancier when you're hosting foreign heads of state. besides, what if one cameraman or boom mic guy ends up in the background of another cameraman's shot? a sea of tuxedos, formal dresses, etc. broken up by some dude wearing a backwards baseball cap, polo shirt, ratty jeans, and gym shoes?…

As a Brit, I suspect our royals are considerably more likely to take umbridge at the idea they'd even deign to notice what American journalists are wearing than at how they're actually dressed.

Nope. I wear scrubs all day at work, I get animal poop and pee and dirt and god knows what else on my scrubs all day. That does not mean I wear scrubs to the interview. I wear a suit and practical but dressy shoes to the interview. And that's why I got the job and the girl in sweatpants didn't. Part of any job…