Some people, even though they’re obviously wet, love being wet, and go around being wet all the time in public don’t like being told out in the open that they are in fact wet.

As opposed to the rich people who claimed bone spurs during Vietnam....

I love her and she can have as many gold pianos as wants.

When my grandmother was 92, we were just glad no one else could hear what she said about the black kids who walked by the house on the way to school.

And it’s also gilded, not somehow carved out of a piano-sized block of gold.  For those not up on their gilding facts, small sheets of gold that are a couple of thousands of an inch thick are glued onto a background.  It looks impressive, but doesn’t take a lot of gold.

But isn’t the army parading junk really for the tourists? The touch of Ye Olde that the rest of us can’t get at home or that has the ancient touch of privileged authenticity?

The royals aren’t funded by the taxpayer...ANYMORE! After centuries of living off the public dime and amassing obscene amounts of wealth, they decided that was enough. Now they get rich through investing their “private” wealth.

“If you have an issue with how your taxes are allocated speak to your MP don’t tweet at a 95 year old figurehead.”

Oh how I wish folks would learn this lesson!

A lot of their activities are taxpayer funded, namely security, the whole army parading, visits, etc etc.

Queen tries to tell everyone to get along and be nice to each other and people respond by being nasty and petty.

She worked as a mechanic in WWII. I’m reasonably sure normal rich people don’t do that. Count yourself lucky you have a Queen, figurehead though she may be, who’s had a strong sense of duty from the get go. 

Hey England, at least she didn’t tell a 7 year old that her belief in Santa is “marginal” wtf that means.

Brainless little shits could use a fucking history lesson.

I’m not British and I can certainly see how this could push buttons. But, none of that stuff is actually hers, right? If she tried to sell it on Ebay I imagine Parliament would have something to say about it? Same with the castles? Those technically belong to the British nation, right? I sincerely don’t know; maybe…

In fairness, that golden piano is clearly a hand-me-down. 

There’s always some idiot waiting to pile on Her Majesty at this time of year. Most of those items are antiques passed down from other monarchs and part of our nation’s history - what else should we do with the gold piano, flog it to a super-rich Russian for their kids to flaunt on insta?