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He has been told since birth that God appointed him and his family to be the heads of state of the country and to rule over millions of people; is it any surprise that it’s easy to believe nonsense?

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Anything that ends the monarchy quicker is fine. Biggest case of Stockholm syndrome ever.

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It will not end, it will only begin. The monarchy under the queen was very popular. As Charles took over, it lost a bit of its prestige, as Charles has too much bad publicity in the last three decades. But it was okay to let people turn away für some years as it was clear that there will be a Second Lady Diana Moment as soon as William and Kate will take over. People Loooove them. They will be the reason the boulevard press will survive the next three decades. Mark my words: Monarch in the UK is not dying but will just awake new under W+K - especially in miserable times like these. People cling to that shit like it is their own live, because some people include it into the center of their own life.

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Charles was just diagnosed with cancer. I guess he’s going to find out what Steve Jobs found out.

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Oh wow! Its full of value for shareholders!

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My brother once made an interesting point about why Steve Jobs chose fake medicine. What he said was, from memory, “Every other time in his life that people told him what he was doing was a bad idea that would end in disaster he ended up making a few billion dollars.”

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In a sane world, the first sentence of the headline would end with “as court jester”. Hopefully those are still around.

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