On the one hand, I already knew that the monarchy is exhempt from the laws that govern the rest of us regular plebeians. Because they are rich.
But I certainly did not realise that it was so... overt? Like, they don't even pretend to follow the same rules as us, they literally write exemptions for themselves into the law. It's disgusting. And they dare call it "a matter of legal correctness”. The injustice makes my blood boil.
Like, they don’t even pretend to follow the same rules as us, they literally write exemptions for themselves into the law.
It's kinda worse than that, they blackmail elected officials into creating specific loopholes for them: "make one exempt from this law or one may well stop it passing."
Thing is, they could call his bluff, because if he did stop the law going through there would be uproar.
They could call his bluff, but what would a Tory be doing preventing a wealthy heir from excusing himself from an inconvenient law?
“But I could become royalty one day and then what?”
Is the British version of the “temporarily embarrassed millionaire”?
Not really no. In the UK our institutionalised classism is explicitly written down in law. Makes things less confusing, you see.
I guess I thought that this was well known. Crimes are prosecuted in the name of the Crown. Passports are issued in the name of the Crown. Drivers licenses are issued in the name of the Crown. Charles doesn't need either of these and can't be prosecuted because he'd be, sort of, prosecuting himself.