If you look back 600 years ago, royals' sole goal was to keep their wealth within the family.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad.
What royal families are very good at doing is surviving and reinventing themselves. That's true whether it's a constitutional monarchy in Britain or an authoritarian monarchy.
If you look at the British royal family and take away the scandals and the goofy stuff that's going on, people love to have this king to look up to - the royals are like celebrities.
In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.
It's as if we live in a house which has a vast treasury in one of its rooms. Only we've forgotten about it. So, instead of living a life of royalty, we go about in poverty.
The Royal family have always been great philanthropists.
Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop any discipline.
The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.
The Royal Family have always had an interest in a number of different areas of society. We are a part of society.