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Steven Patrick Morrissey

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.

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Morrissey is criticizing the royal family for prioritizing their financial interests and relying on public money to support their extravagant and unnecessary way of living. He expresses disappointment that taxpayers are forced to fund what he sees as a large and wasteful institution without practical value.

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