What a weird fucking take, like, who visits the UK because monarchy? Like, is there any major subset of people for whom this plays a significant role? Is there seriously anyone who would refuse to visit the UK if there was no monarchy? This is dumb.
Obviously some people find some of the pomp and Ceremony a tourist draw, but no one said you had to dump the Changing of the Guard or the Tower Warders or whatever, and a whole lot of cool Palaces would be significantly more open.
Like imagine trying to visit Versailles if the Bourbons were still there. You'd have to spend a fortune renting the required outfit (Sewing an actual 18th century court gown runs somewhere north of $10000 if you count labour time and materials, and mens outfits are MORE expensive, equivalent to a full Saville Row outfitting (so ~$25k)) and you'd see like 20% of what you can see today. And then there's all the OTHER palaces that were turned into museums by the revolution.
What a weird fucking take, like, who visits the UK because monarchy? Like, is there any major subset of people for whom this plays a significant role? Is there seriously anyone who would refuse to visit the UK if there was no monarchy? This is dumb.
Obviously some people find some of the pomp and Ceremony a tourist draw, but no one said you had to dump the Changing of the Guard or the Tower Warders or whatever, and a whole lot of cool Palaces would be significantly more open.
Like imagine trying to visit Versailles if the Bourbons were still there. You'd have to spend a fortune renting the required outfit (Sewing an actual 18th century court gown runs somewhere north of $10000 if you count labour time and materials, and mens outfits are MORE expensive, equivalent to a full Saville Row outfitting (so ~$25k)) and you'd see like 20% of what you can see today. And then there's all the OTHER palaces that were turned into museums by the revolution.
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