# Non-US Dopers, do you care about the other royal (Constitutional monarchy) families?

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**Created:** [October 30, 2023, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-us-dopers-do-you-care-about-the-other-royal-constitutional-monarchy-families/992303 "2023-10-30T13:59:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2023, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-us-dopers-do-you-care-about-the-other-royal-constitutional-monarchy-families/992303/21 "2023-10-31T11:23:59Z")

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I’m Canadian and I find the dearth of candidates in the Japanese royal family mildly interesting. I guess I find Prince Charles’s stupid views on homeopathy and other quackery mildly interesting, too.

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**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2023, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-us-dopers-do-you-care-about-the-other-royal-constitutional-monarchy-families/992303/22 "2023-10-31T12:04:42Z")

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> [@scareyfaerie](#):
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> I’m in the UK, don’t pay any attention to our own royal idiots, never mind anyone else’s.

Quite so!

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**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-us-dopers-do-you-care-about-the-other-royal-constitutional-monarchy-families/992303/23 "2023-11-01T02:36:23Z")

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> [@Love\_Rhombus](#):
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> > [@JRDelirious](#):
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> > until his younger brother produced a son.
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> The _brother_ produced a son? Man, the royals are different, aren’t they?

Yes, indeed.  
We would have said that the younger brother _sired_ a son.

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**Author:** ![Digger11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@Digger11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digger11)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-us-dopers-do-you-care-about-the-other-royal-constitutional-monarchy-families/992303/24 "2023-11-01T03:37:00Z")

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> [@PatrickLondon](#):
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> More than that, I can only say there’s no public sign yet of Charles being the fussy interventionist on potentially controversial issues that he was rumoured to want to be.

I don’t remember where I read it, but he said quite openly that being monarch is a very different thing than being the heir. He knew that he would have to make some changes in his personal style once he became king.

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