I reckon that it should be a huge concern to any sane and sensible person that this disturbed individual is anywhere near any levers of power and influence. The Council of State is a vital and indispensable bastion of our Constitutional Mo narchy. Its members should be chosen for their knowledge, competence and loyalty to The Crown.
I imagine that if he ever should succeed in his ambition to bring down the monarchy (because he can't be the monarch) it will go very badly for him indeed.
Every one of the family is independently very wealthy, even if they had to surrender crown properties. Most of them have jobs/ careers/ ways of generating an income. All of them - except Hazno and Andrew - are popular (the lucrative after dinner circuit will call - and so will book publishers and documentary makers, should the Royals decide to take to those fields). All of them have equally wealthy friends who will welcome them and ensure that they are OK if necessary.
Andrew's daughters will make sure he doesn't starve.
Only one member of the RF will have blown all of their money, all of their resources, all of their friends and all of their opportunities. Guess who that one is?
And I can't see any of the others coming to his rescue. They will be able to sit back, enjoy their great wealth and a lot of leisure time, while not having the pressures of royal duties. They won't want him hanging round their necks like a dead albatross.
That's a fascinating insight....apart from thoroughly enjoying ***Sue Townsend's excellent
The Queen and I (in which the UK republican party comes to power and immediately abolishes the Monarchy, sending the whole family to council houses on a Midlands sink estate), I'd not really thought about TRF's actual response to suddenly being made redundant and with a useless grifting junkie stoat in tow.(He'd fit right in to Sue Townsend's Hellebore Close!).
I think you're right, most of the fam would shun him. Chas Spencer might find a use for the stoat on his huge estate...but they'd soon fall out: too many of those prickly Spencer genes swirling around to allow familial harmony for long.
For a long time I've said that most of the RF are experts in their own right. In fact, I'm in awe of a good few of them: by their own choice they've quietly learnt and studied and practiced to very high levels in their chosen fields. So they'd be welcomed into those fields if they wanted to work.
The stoat, on the other hand, has done absolutely nothing to make himself realistically employable on the strength of his knowledge, competence, expertise - because he doesn't have it. He has tons of ill-informed opinions though.
Lashing his way round a polo field wouldn't count for jack. He wouldn't even get a gig as a novelty host on a late night, minor cable tv show - he's that boring, ill-disposed and gauche.
And he's burnt all his bridges - which has become the only persistent pursuit in which he excels!
Meanwhile, the fall of the Monarchy would likely lead to immense civil unrest and chaos on every level, even resulting in civil war. As the leading perp in the Monarchy's demise, stoat would be hounded to death by the strong Royalist faction... and after a few decades of Republican mayhem and misrule, the Monarchy would be restored....that's the pattern of British history.
***Well worth reading, I've just found my copy and will read it again after 30yrs!
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