Royal Family Supporters Got Fed Up With ‘Spoiled Aristocrats’ For This Reason

The royal family’s supporters reportedly got fed up with them for being spoiled aristocrats in the 1980s.

In the Amazon Prime documentary “The Story of Diana,” fashion journalist Meredith Etherington-Smith said that chaos permeated a wild decade in British history. She said that it even reached a point where people were throwing cabbage at each other at bus stops.

Royal biographer Amanda Foreman said that the strikes were so bad and added that trash was not taken off the streets and there were blackouts all the time. But it was fashion designer Vivienne Westwood’s controversial Sex Pistols shirt that served as the ultimate protest in fashion at that time.

Artist Jamie Reid created the wildly subversive images of Queen Elizabeth for the Sex Pistol’s “God Save the Queen” record sleeve, which deconstructed Cecil Beaton’s portrait of Her Majesty with a safety pin through her nose.

Jess Cagle, the editor of People magazine, said that there was a huge disdain for the royal family.

“A growing part of the population felt, ‘why are we supporting these spoiled aristocrats when we can’t put food on our table?’” he said.

Vivienne Parry, Princess Diana’s former charity partner, said that at that time it seemed as though the Princess of Wales was the future.

“Diana was a disrupter. She came at a time when the royal family was seen as being stuffy and old-fashioned… She was new, she was the right way to start a fairytale,” she said.

At a time when Britain was being plagued by anti-conservative social unrest, Queen Elizabeth II saw the crucial distraction in a royal wedding. Princess Diana and Prince Charles’ union was watched by 750 million people around the world, and the ceremony sparked new public interest in what was previously seen as a stale monarchy.

In the Amazon Prime documentary “Princess Diana: Behind the Headlines,” Cagle said that 1981 was a dark time for England. But the royal wedding somewhat changed everything for the royal family.