The signs are more than clear that the UK has had enough of the Royals and they need to go.
If you look at their history you get a clear picture that they started by force, and their vast involvement in the Slave Trade read below,,,
How did the Royal Family start?
Questions about the origins of today's Royal Family arguably start in two places, one in 1066, and another in 1917.
The current Royal Family line emerged with the Norman invasion in 1066 when William the Conqueror landed in England.
He deposed the monarch at the time, Harald Godwinson, dismantling the House of Wessex.
His descendants passed the crown through a tangled mess of relatives and houses, and it eventually came to James VI and I in 1603.
He was the last exclusively Scottish king and first king of Great Britain.
James, I was the first monarch of England, who established the Stuart house, which was handed over to the House of Hanover, Queen Victoria's family.
The Hanover house then gave birth to the modern Royal Family, but through necessity rather than heritage.
Slavery
The royal family’s links date back to the 16th century. In 1562, John Hawkins was the first known English person to include enslaved Africans in his cargo, a journey that was approved by Elizabeth I. The enslaved Africans were traded for goods including ginger and sugar. In 1564, Hawkins arranged another voyage, for which Elizabeth I funded a vessel.
In 1660, the Royal African Company was established by the Duke of York, who later became James II, with involvement from his brother, Charles II. The Royal African Company was prolific in the slave trade; according to the Slave Voyages website, between 1672 and 1731 the Royal African Company transported more than 187,000 slaves from Africa to English colonies in North, Central and South America. Many of the enslaved Africans transported by the Royal African Company were branded “DY”, standing for Duke of York.
Between 1690 and 1807, an estimated 6 million enslaved Africans were transported from west Africa to the Americas on British or Anglo-American ships. The slave trade was protected by the royal family and parliament.
According to Prof Corinne Fowler, an academic at the University of Leicester who specializes in Britain’s colonial legacies, the royal family “has an opportunity to show leadership by acknowledging its involvement, making a formal apology and asking openly and humbly what the family can do to begin to repair the damage”, and a first step to moving on “might be to decide that the Queen should no longer be the ceremonial head of state”.
and ... https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1336340/Royal-family-facts-how-did-the-royal-family-start
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