# Are people in the UK jailed for "insulting the Queen" **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-people-in-the-uk-jailed-for-insulting-the-queen/730648 **Category:** Factual Questions **Created:** [September 11, 2015, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-people-in-the-uk-jailed-for-insulting-the-queen/730648 "2015-09-11T04:12:42Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 28
### Author: ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus) #### Post date: [September 11, 2015, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-people-in-the-uk-jailed-for-insulting-the-queen/730648/28 "2015-09-11T11:21:07Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Heck, I’m gobsmacked at how the Thais treat the Thai royal family. That family really seems to have done a whole lot of nothing to earn the respect shown to them. IMHO, Thailand’s royal family is the sole reason for the lèse-majesté law there–to keep legitimate criticism of the joke that family is from being aired in public. Thailand is the country in the most need of getting rid of royalty, but it’ll never happen thanks to that vicious law. 😕 Cite? Certainly news coverage of the Royals here is, by law, universally favorable but it doesn’t necessarily follow that a lot of bad news is being covered up. [Here’s a list of awards (Stanford’s Woman of the Year etc.) given to the Queen by foreign agencies, not sycophantic Thais.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirikit#Awards) Each member of the Royal family should be judged on his/her own merits and the King’s only son is widely criticised; is there some specific allegation against some other Royal I don’t know about? 😕 Certainly there are admirable works that can be pointed to. Although, like Britain’s Queen, he’s a Constitutional Monarch with no direct governmental power, His Majesty’s resolution of the 1992 crisis was impressive. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-people-in-the-uk-jailed-for-insulting-the-queen/730648)._