Originally Posted by RVCA

As an American, I really don't understand how you UK-ers even tolerate the royal family, much less adore them. I mean, they're even worse than celebrities in the sense that they enjoy ridiculously lavish lifestyle and constant fame for doing nothing other than being born, which isn't "doing" anything at all. At least other celebrities are professional actors/actresses, athletes, or what have you.

Maybe I'm looking at this all wrong but how do you guys willingly pay out part of your earnings every day to GIVE this family money for performing a role that has all but vanished in the last couple hundred years?