"Tim Streater" wrote in message
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In article , gareth
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"Andrew Gabriel" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Mr Pounder Esquire" writes:
Their castles, not our castles. Their palaces, not our palaces.

The only ones which are theirs are Balmoral Castle and Sandringham
House.
All the others are owned by the British state.

But the British State is a monarchy.

A constitutional monarchy. Not the same thing.

Au contraire, for we Brits are condemned to be second-class citizens
compared
to the rest of Europe in that we can never aspire to be head of state, and
those
who kowtow to the infestation of monarchy by becoming MPs are obliged to
swear allegiance to that desperate disease.