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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

A Rich Kid is Born in England! Here Are 5 Anti-Royal Songs to Celebrate With

Posted By on Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 8:14 AM

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As you may have noticed over the last few days, every news station in the country seems to be laboring under the assumption that we give a shit about a disgustingly wealthy child being born in England. We know the idea is that he'll be the future King of the U.K. and all that, but Prince Charles is 64 years old and he's still waiting to be King because his mother is trying to beat Queen Victoria's longest-reigning-Queen record. By the time we get through his reign and Prince William's reign, that baby is going to be about 75.

Still, since our regular TV schedules keep getting interrupted with footage of a hospital door and a wide variety of royal traditionalist nonsense, we thought it only fair to counter the sycophantic newscasts with some lovely, anti-British-monarchy songs. Since you already know about "God Save The Queen" by the Sex Pistols and "The Queen Is Dead" by the Smiths, we decided instead to focus on some lesser known tracks that do just as good of a job at calling out the pomp and privilege of Britain's Royal Family.

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