I don’t think most Europeans would think their royals are classy at all. Even if we stripped them of their power now they’d just be rich people living in large houses their family could already afford anyway. They’re basically government pawns we keep around for tradition and to make deals with vain foreign leaders. China does something similar, but they used pandas. If you’re a good little friend of the totalitarians, you get to have a panda in your zoo.
You think the leaders of shit holes are going to be interested in presidents? Nah, they meet presidents every day. If you want to placate them, you take our the big guns. You go “Who’s a big boy president? That’s right, it’s you! You can have a sleepover in a real palace just like in the Disney movies! Everyone thinks you’re such an important big boy!” These leaders aren’t rational-thinking, they’re coming from (sub)cultures where displays of wealth and status mean something, and I bet nothing makes a vain guy happier than to say they made a king entertain them. They feel like they’re such big shits pushing around our stage puppets.
You’d think those foreign leaders would feel belittled but sending royalty to shitholes works great, politically. The national news broadcaster has this trick where they’re officially “royal Dutch news” (because of weird laws, you don’t need to be related to royalty in any way to be granted that title as a company) and yelling “royal Dutch news” instead of “Dutch news” when trying to ask questions actually works. Even in countries with presidents. It’s extremely stupid but it’s been proven to work.
I don’t think the royals are anything special but I also don’t think the political circus around electing a president and the endless drama that follows will be any cheaper (or better, for that matter). With the way things are going in this country, I’ll take King Wimlex over President Wilders, thank you very much.
Also Trump was super delighted that he could sleep in a Dutch palace. The charm offensive by the Dutch royalties worked on him since he wasn’t as belligerent at the NATO summit as he normally is, so the adults in the room could do the talking.
I’ve literally never heard any human being praise or admire royalty, aside from Diana.
Knigge was German
yeah but he didn’t wear as many hats
As long you don’t say the hard r
Bro is about to shoot his own coffee mug
Americans: Our system is the best because we don’t have royalty, we have a President instead!
American President: Plating his palace with gold and being completely above the law.
The American king is far more absolute than any European king.
Just for the record: He’s not royalty
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What a fucken dork lmfao
honorable mention: princess märtha louise of norway is a clairvoyant married to an american conspiracy theorist and serial rapist.
Well, his Wikipedia article is horrifying
He asserts that casual sex attracts subterranean spirits that make an impression on the inside of women’s vaginas and offers exercises to “clean out” said vaginas; he writes that children get cancer because they want it;
I hope her first husband kept their daughters away from him
First husband took his own life, so there’s that
There’s a whole lot of words there that I do not like together
Reading about this family just reminds me of this:
Nobody’s saying that our royals are classy, except themselves, their paid weirdos, and, weirdly enough, americans.
idiot americans worship money and think being royalty means being loaded
Thought the gun was a squirt gun connected to the (wine? champagne? w/e) bottle, now that would’ve been classy
Who is this?
the son of the crown princess of norway. she had him before she was married to the crown prince so he’s not an official part of the royal family, but he’s a major pain in their ass anyway.
Son of the Norwegian crown prince. You’ll be unsuprised to learn that he stands accused of many sexual assaults.
crown princess*. he’s the “bonus prince” because she had him before she married the prince.
He is not royal. His mother married a royal
It looks like he wanted a big chest piece but chickened out after the lining and never went back to get it finished.
is that really a “mom” tattoo? i guess might as well if you’re going the sick ass panther route
also is that an airsoft gun? and is he drinking champagne in a coffee cup?
It’s a royal thing, clearly us peasants won’t get it
Literally every tattoo he has is generic as hell lmao.
Terrible Trigger Discipline but that looks like it’s a BB gun…
Pretty sure my .22s have a larger bore, and I have a shitload.
Funny story:
Black dude runs up in the local redneck bar and starts waving a BB pistol around. “You’re money and your jewelry!”, kinda talk. People were like, whatever dude, that’s a BB gun. “I’m fucking serious!” One the guys playing pool walked up behind him and clocked him over the skull with the blunt end of a pool stick. Fin.
I hear he has lots of sex.
Helen Keller would produce better quality tats but at least he leans into his trash identity enough to identify from a distance
