The royal family engage in all sorts of risky behaviors in order to seek the approval of the masses.

Most young men do this kind of thing given the choice.

But the second to dive under Camilla‘s skirts.

Most young men do this kind of thing given alcohol. The type of front line military experience the royals endure would not appeal to "most young men." Check local enlistment stats.

The article says almost nothing about this expedition except that it was a “collaboration” with a doctor. It sounds more like a holiday with a friend than anything military.

Self Contained Underwater Breathing Authoritarian

Lol😆

Cant believe they still have a monarchy. take all the royal property, assign it a gov owned historical property, keep it open to the public so they can pay to see it, and the gov and people can still get their royal revenue. And this way you wont have royals spending tax payer money.

He was also the first wanting to be a tampon.

It costs each taxpayer a whopping 1.29 pounds ($1.48) per person a year to “fund” the monarchy. I think it’s going to be okay. 😒

that is still lit millions. which could be put to better use and public programs.

Authoritarian of what?

Because of the monarchy. It was a King joke.

All good, I was just pointing out it isn't an authoritarian office anymore, powers significanty diminished and so forth

I gotcha, but my comment was clearly a joke. Being a pedant is annoying under normal circumstances, doing so in response to what was very clearly a facetious jocular comment is moreso. But it's all good, it was sorta forced to begin with, tried coming up with a better one but I'm not that clever.

Also has parachutists wings.

He was appointed Colonel-in-chief of the Parachute Regiment in 1977, and insisted on qualifying. He said that he could not wear the Regiment's famous maroon beret and wings, or "look [the men] in the eye" until he had done so.

The British royal family generates millions of pounds worth of tourism for the United Kingdom each year. It is estimated the monarchy’s contributes £2.5 billion to the British economy each year.

Yes, it costs money but the return is huge.

Edit - The facts actually disprove your "reality". How problematic.

It’s still weird to see “King Charles,” more so when the title had to specify that the event in question happened when he was a prince. Of course he was a prince; he was a prince until just last year!

Whilst I don’t mind the monarchy, France also generates loads in tourism, without the expenditure for a royal family.

True but should the British abandon fish and chips because France has great pastry?

He only dove deep underwater because he wanted PRIVACEH!

Should've visited Ireland and scuba'd off the coast of Muff, so he could be the first Prince who muff dived.

In Resolute Bay, the average high daily temperature in April is 0F.

Charles did a tough dive.

I think they were just joking along

If they generate so much money, why do the people have to subsidise them?!

The tourists that come to see Buckingham Palace won't stop coming just because the family that lives there moves out. They generate literally nothing to the economy.

£1.29 per person means over £86,000,000 per year. It's not the biggest waste of public money, but it's still over 86 million going to one random family with no benefit to the rest of us.

Do pro athletes pay their own salary?

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If the UK government got their hands on the crown estate it’d be sold off to some Russian/Chinese/Arab billionaire tosser within a year.

It may seem somewhat ironic to you, but being out of the hands of the government is a net positive for the people of the UK. Because the crown effectively has to justify its own existence, it in turn has a vested interest in keeping its holdings, stopping them from being asset stripped by foreigners.

I’m not against the idea of an elected head of state, but only in the situation that the crown continues to exist as a wholly separate entity from the government.

So what