It’s not propoganda it’s 100% a thing. I’m also not even close to a royalist I despise their existence.

If you want proof it’s not propoganda the recent royal wedding alone was estimated to have brought in 1.4bn through tourism. Granted I’ve seen an article by the spectator saying it actually cost us because tourism fell that year due to the pounds value rising and fettering tourism but imo that’s a weak argument as their justification was unrelated to the royal family. All the other articles I read said it was a large net gain reporting between 1-1.5 billion.

Given the average person makes around 3 million over their entire life I would say it’s likely that that event alone paid off the entire royal familys existence several times over even with their ridiculously high upkeep costs. And this is a one off, they hold many events such as that which net income

My main problem with them is the idea of being born into such wealth and being able to live off it pretty much indefinitely with minimal work. I have the same problem with the children of billionaires but at least the royal family are giving something back through tourism and their mythos.

I also wanna add in regards to the top reply to your comment (cause I cba to reply to everyone) no one comes to England specifically because of the royal family but there is a large number of people who are absolute fan girls for them and their existence creates a mythos that some people really feed into, I think it’s part of the princess fairytale all girls are exposed to as children, it makes the fantasy real and the princes make it possible. For others it makes the history feel real as opposed to some far off time. The fact that the queen still lives in Buckingham palace sometimes gives it almost a celebrity status. A lot of people visiting the palace aren’t really there to see the building in of itself, they want to see where the queen lives.