the royal family has no power anymore.
That’s not entirely true, but not entirely false either. It’s a very odd situation over in the UK.
For example, every act of Parliament requires Royal Assent to become law. Without it, an act cannot become law. Interestingly enough, the last act that Edward VIII performed as king was to give his Royal Assent to His Majesty’s Abdication Act of 1936. Before he assented to it, the act could not become law.
On the other hand, no monarch has withheld Royal Assent on a law since the early 1700s — and no monarch in his/her right mind is going to do so.
There are other similar instances where the monarch technically has power but does not wield it.
all they do is use tax money to party
That’s not entirely true either. The members of the Royal Family act as a form of elite diplomatic corps. When you see Prince Charles on some Polynesian Island talking with the local bigwigs and wearing a grass skirt, that’s not a vacation. The Crown Prince is also a patron of quite a number of charities in the UK (as are other members of the Royal Family).
That’s not to say that being a Royal is the same as working in the salt mines for ten hours a day. Rank hath its privileges, I suppose. But to say that they do nothing but party at taxpayer expense is not really a fair assessment.
The Wolf