We often hear that the Royal family is a popular institution that enjoys wide support as a result, The facts are that Royal popularity or otherwise doesn’t have an impact on support, and that the big thing that helps (or hinders) the Royals is media coverage.
Royal tours: taxpayer funded self-preservation
Why change? Representing New Zealand to the world
Why change? Representing New Zealand to the world: another British Royal is about to wing there way to a foreign country to do the bidding of the British government. Fair enough, the Royals are after all an institution paid for by the British taxpayer. That leaves New Zealand in the position of not really having anyone for such ceremonial and diplomatic work…