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And I think you're missing my point. To the Crown Princess, this is a mild inconvenience and will probably eventually turn in to an interesting anecdote. She can slide right into any other Ivy League university if she wants to, or she can head home to a local university without worrying about applications, grants or anything else of that boring stuff. To many other students, this might wreak havoc on their academic careers and their economies. That is some of the utterly stupid stuff that should be brought to attention. Tell me their stories.
Admittedly, I'm a European republican, i.e. in the non-US sense of the word, but still. This article reads more like a gossip piece than international news.
something i've learned by observing people who like the swedish royal family is that they all really like them. there are no casual royalists. the fact that this happens to a royal introduces this issue to an entire group of voters whose entire news intake consists solely of "what did the royal family do today".
personally i would fully support converting my country to a republic if we hadn't designed our entire legal system to make the head of state completely useless. instating a president would put a politician in charge of the country, instead of the way it is now where the king basically doesn't know what goes on in the riksdag and has no say in what happens there. so nobody can even begin to aspire to lead the country, which i like.
the exorbitant amounts of money the royals get from the state is a bit of an issue, but i do kind of like the novelty. one of my favourite dedications of a book is from Fairy Tales for Children Over 18, which is dedicated to "Mr. The King, whose mere existence proves that we live in fairyland"
Dude the ven diagram of the people that voted for Trump and also care a lot about royals is like 8 people.
Well yeah, but the venn diagram of royalist stans and (hopefully former if this gets in their newsfeed) non-voters is probably a lot higher.