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Life without the monarchy

to not having the royal family i think there's less sort of hierarchy in our society but i think the negatives of not having them a lot of people would feel like the past is kin...

Course: Big questions in societySection: Views on the royal familySubtitles: en

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positives

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to not having the royal family i think

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there's less sort of

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hierarchy in our society but i think

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the negatives of not having them a lot

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of people would feel

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like the past is kind of

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not carried into the present and they'll

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feel like

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really

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sort of nostalgic about what used to be

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really important in our society

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okay so are you kind of

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summarizing that we kind of keep them

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but that we give them less

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sort of uh we idolize them a little bit

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less or give them less power yeah

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yeah definitely i think so

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interesting the point you're making last

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a bit a minute ago about you know harry

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kind of opting out and the queen kind of

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maybe having to just take this all on

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yeah

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do we need them do you think we need the

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royal family anymore i think it's going

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to be i think that i think charles

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i think william and kate will thin

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thin the royal family down i think it's

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going to get thinner and thinner and

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thinner

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yeah in terms of sort of

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not exactly hangers on but you know the

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historically it's been a it's been a lot

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of people hasn't it you know the royal

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family has been married

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and you probably don't need all the

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duke of gloucesters and all that sort of

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lot i think i think in terms of the core

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i think they do

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