Tom Paine and Monarchy.

 

There's a singular lack of hostility shown towards the privileged aristocracy by people living in Britain and the Republican movement, is quite small. 

Many British people don't seem to find anything anomalous or odd about Prince William selling the Big Issue and raising the issue of homelessness in Britain, while his uncle Edward and his family live in the 120 room Bagshot Park, and Windsor Castle contains 1000 rooms, which are mostly unoccupied.   

Lady Bracknell says in Oscar Wilde's play 'The Importance of Being Earnest',

"Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square." 

King Charles III, is descended from the usurping House of Hanover. The English radical Tom Paine said, "I have an aversion to monarchy as being too debasing to the dignity of man." He wrote: 

"The time is not very far distant when England will laugh at itself for sending to Holland, Hanover, Zell, or Brunswick, for men, at the expense of a million a year, who understood neither her laws, her language, nor her interests, and whose capacities would scarcely have fitted them for the office of a parish constable."

Despite Andrew Mountbatten Windsor being an asset to the British Republican movement, as of April 2026, the British Royal Family still remains popular with 57 to 59% of Britons holding a favourable view of the institution, and 64% supporting continuation of the monarchy.