Why do Royal Family avoid using NHS like the plague

Just because they are public figures does not mean they should use the NHS. I bet if you had billions you'd use private hospitals over public ones. And many of these private facilities are used to treating high profile individuals with specific security arrangements.

Could you provide a link to an example of one of them using the NHS?

I think there are much more significant issues relating to the monarchy/aristocracy like the fact that "189,000 families [still] own two-thirds of the UK's 60 million acres, of which nearly three quarters is owned by the top 40,000." [source]

That's not true at all. Most surgeons who work in private hospitals also do work on the NHS (and are trained by the NHS, if not other health systems overseas), so you're generally getting exactly the same people. The general statistics [to my knowledge] don't show any health benefits of private healthcare, the benefits are speed and incidental "perks" (like paying to enter a special lounge at the airport).

I love how people are scrambling to justify it, it takes pressure off NHS, it would present a security risk. It's like slaves who love their chains.

I love how people are scrambling to justify it, it takes pressure off NHS, it would present a security risk. It's like slaves who love their chains.

So you want to be given more stuff yourself for doing nothing. Remember socialism only works when you're spending somebody else's money.

Im sure anyone would go to a private hospital rather than the nhs if finance was not an issue.

So you want to be given more stuff yourself for doing nothing. Remember socialism only works when you're spending somebody else's money.

If anything, the slave analogy you used is more fitting to the fact that people are forced to pay for other people's healthcare.

If you can afford better than an average service, it should be your choice. It is no business of some left wing ponce whether you can or not.

The Queen is famous and whatnot in her own right. When she's gone on to heaven, I'm not sure Royalty will last thereafter. I'm not sure Prince Philip or Prince Charles are as well-known or likeable or exude as much respect and fame as Her Majesty. Even when you type in "the Queen" in Google, it comes up with ours.

Having said that, I don't agree with people being honoured simply because they were born into a certain family - it is frankly outrageous in modern times; but it is justified by "Oh, but she brings in lots of tourism, money and helps relations".

I contest the money claims since all the palaces exist independently of her and certainly I spit on the idea that she is a good ambassador since many of the countries Britain colonised are now the important ones and she's the biggest symbol of colonisation alive today. People will adore William and Harry like they adore her, they've been pushed as these 'ero's who fight for their country.

LOL, the Queen gets her money from taxes but then the whole NHS is slavery is the sort of nonsense I would expect from somone with a picture of Reagan in his avatar.

So the Queen choosing to use better healthcare is more worthy of slavery rhetoric than the state forcing me to pay for other people's treatment?

Left wing logic strikes again.

So the Queen choosing to use better healthcare is more worthy of slavery rhetoric than the state forcing me to pay for other people's treatment?

Left wing logic strikes again.

So the Queen choosing to use better healthcare is more worthy of slavery rhetoric than the state forcing me to pay for other people's treatment?

Left wing logic strikes again.

You are also paying for your own treatments. You see, as a citizen in a civilized society, there are some duties and responsibilities owed by you to the State and your fellow citizen. Do you complain of paying for other people's schooling and education - which includes your own? Do you complain of paying for roads and infrastructure?

You are a fan of Reagan yet you support the monarchy? Personally, I don't see how anyone who is right wing can support a monarchy.

You are a fan of Reagan yet you support the monarchy? Personally, I don't see how anyone who is right wing can support a monarchy.

I was merely pointing out that the analogy used was inappropriate when looking at the context.

My major point is that we have a safety net; that doesn't mean people who can afford private provision should be restricted in doing so on the grounds of some vague notion of equality. There is a safety net in place. Don't force everyone to land in it.

I never mentioned pro-Monarchy. My gripe is with people demonising those who wish to go private.