To be fair, he didn't pay for the crown jewels himself, so its not like he had the money to buy them -- rather, they were stolen.
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The wealth of all billionaires is stolen. The jewels were just solen a long time ago
So fucking sad.
sad and enraging
Fuck the royals so hard. I fucking can’t stand them. They preach “HELP THE POOR” while sitting pretty on stolen funds. They get paid millions, if not billions, to sit around and do jack fucking shit all day. Fuck them.
It's still so weird to me to think about how we have more advanced technology and more trade across the planet, yet it seems like our quality of life is being lowered. Ultimately, the reason the 1950s felt different wasn't because the technology was better, it's because the economic guardrails were different. The system we have now isn't broken; it's functioning exactly as it was redesigned to function over the last 40 years: capturing the immense wealth generated by modern efficiency and funneling it straight to the top.
Wild that they still dress up like that. Read the fucking room.
Let them eat beans on toast
Wanker.
The crown jewels are state-owned and might as well be part of the UK's gold reserves worth 30 billion. Given the historical, cultural, and symbolic value, I'd say they should dip into the gold reserves first to solve homelessness and fund the NHS.
You can certainly have a debate about where some of those rocks came from and their ongoing possession by the UK tho!
Debate about what? Whether theft is theft?
They keep those jewels away from the brokers because they're all hot and the countries they were stolen from will make a fuss and ruin that overinflated valuation of that cheap looking gaudy shit. Cultural reasons is a convenient cover.
Then any ol' brit can just go wear it for, say, a low budget music video?
Can they do that with the gold reserves?
Ok ok, put it in a museum.
Or... Return jewels, PMs to those from whom they were stolen.
Is this my first AI guillotine?
Seems pretty easy to avoid that blade
Some people need a really close shave.
I'm not British, but it really is bizarre seeing this old geezer actually dressed up in this stuff. It'd almost be comical if it wasn't for the fact that he's dead fucking serious.
I genuinely thought the king get up was only for sitting for portraits and shit, I didn't think he wore it to address the nation.
How heavy is the Imperial State Crown? The Imperial State Crown measures weighs a hefty 1.06kg (2.3lbs) but it is much lighter than the St Edward's Crown - the headpiece King Charles wore for the moment of his crowning at the Coronation.
This Crown weighs 2.23kg (4.9lbs) and is decorated with 444 precious and semi-precious stones.
Same publication said he may have been sore from wearing the coronation crown. Poor thing. Surely peat mining can't be nearly as demanding!
But the headline says five billion pounds. So which is it, 5 pounds or 5 billion?
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It's sad because I don't see anything dramatically improving in the UK any time soon. It feels as though the people at the top are consistently able to manipulate public opinion against their own best interests.
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