British Royal Worship is Hypocritical Given the Family's Greed and Dysfunction
Source: Taki. "Taki Among the Royals - The American Conservative." March 3, 2026. www.theamericanconservative.com
The Gist
The author argues that British people foolishly worship a royal family that is greedy, dysfunctional, and morally corrupt. He uses personal anecdotes from meeting various royals to show they're unworthy of respect, yet British society continues to bow and scrape to them out of misguided snobbery.
Conclusion
The British public's reverence for the royal family is misguided and hypocritical given the royals' greed, dysfunction, and moral failings
Premises
- The royal family exhibits extraordinary greed, pocketing huge sums from properties while living in state-funded palaces
- The royals are personally dysfunctional, with examples including Charles's cruel treatment of Diana, Margaret's rudeness, and Andrew's stupidity
- British society's snobbery causes people to grovel before royals despite knowing better
- The Epstein scandal revealed the royals' association with sleazy, criminal behavior rather than elite sophistication
- Politicians and media who once fawned over royals now hypocritically demand accountability only when scandals become public
- The royal mystique is built on public funding of private wealth and privilege without corresponding merit
Assumptions
- Personal character and behavior should determine respect rather than inherited titles
- Public figures funded by taxpayers should be held to higher moral standards
- Authentic elite behavior involves sophistication and merit, not mere wealth and connections
- British deference to royalty represents a form of false consciousness or misplaced values