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Its weird i'm actually warming to prince charles

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MidoriHaze:
Coming from Australia we are also fall under the monarchy, but for probably over 100years now we've never really had an association with the monarch. I think we as a nation are either pro nor against the monarchy as a lot of us fall under the "don't care" catagory. There was a referendum going back around 6 or so years and Australia voted against becoming a republic, and a lot of that was due to bureaucratic inertia, i.e. it's worked well so far why bother changing it. A lot of others were against it because a republic would mean a chaning of our flag and a lot of Aussie's are patriotic to that symbol. Although when it comes down to it the Queen has never really been involved in our politics, so we don't a figure head of a president.

Ever since Diana died a lot of Australian's have become less interested in what's become known as the "circus royals". As it was said before a lot of us do take the piss however it's not to disrespect Brit's in particular it's more fueled by the tacky headlines we are constantly subjected to, same with American's.

If anything since the marriage of Mary Donaldson (Tasmania born) and Prince Frederick, they have seemed to become our "adopted" royals and they are a lot more popular than the English royals are at the moment.

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