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The licence fee-funded BBC<\/a> may feel ‘obliged’ to broadcast royal events but we all know left-wing Auntie’s ideologically opposed to our monarchy<\/a> – now they have finally proved it. And the momentous side-step I’m referring to<\/a> is mission creep where their phrase “funding challenges” will be increasingly used to hide their roll-back on covering key royal events.<\/p>\n It is just the latest example of metropolitan elitism that cannot embrace any national pride unless it involves the Olympics<\/a>, the World Cup<\/a> or Eurovision<\/a>. For the first time since 1989, the Commonwealth<\/a> Day Service, attended by King Charles<\/a>, Queen Camilla<\/a>, and other senior Royals<\/a> on Monday, March 9, was not broadcast on BBC<\/a> One.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Commonwealth Day Service celebrates the unity and diversity of its 56 member countries comprising 2.7 billion people to promote peace, democracy, and equality.<\/p>\n “Nah,” thought the keffiyeh-wearing BBC execs sipping their oat milk, caffeine-free, caramel lattes: “Sod that!”<\/p>\n It’s bizarre as you would assume – with newsworthy high-profile Epstein scandals around Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson – every royal event offers fascinating insights into the world’s biggest family drama.<\/p>\n Apparently not.<\/p>\n Instead the BBC opted to air an episode of Escape to the Country. Clearly this property show must be of superior UK cultural significance.<\/p>\n Let’s look at that Escape to the Country episode, to see instead how the BBC feel our \u00a3174.50-a-year licence fee is better spent.<\/p>\n In it, excellent presenter Sonali Shah (it’s not her fault when they broadcast the show) helped middle-aged Canadian couple Stewart and Derek snap up a Scottish mansion and checked back in on a family from California who bought a dream country cottage.<\/p>\n No wonder we have a desperate UK housing crisis.<\/p>\n When asked why there was no Commonwealth Day Service on the BBC, it said: “Our decision not to broadcast in the same way we\u2019ve done in previous years reflects the difficult choices we have to make in light of our funding challenges.”<\/p>\n Funding challenges? Last year the BBC made a staggering \u00a36 billion in revenue, with \u00a33.8 billion coming from the TV licence fee and \u00a32.2 billion from commercial activities.<\/p>\n To put the BBC’s financial clout in context, that\u2019s more than the combined annual GDP of these five countries: Tonga, St Kitts and Nevis, Grenada, San Marino and Greenland.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Let’s not kid ourselves.<\/p>\n The BBC didn’t show it because, while the majority of Brits in an increasingly unsettling world see our monarchy as a lynchpin of UK society and community, they view it as a baffling anachronism.<\/p>\n Who can forget the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012 when during the carriage procession, they cut to presenter Fearne Cotton joking with singer Paloma Faith about a Diamond Jubilee sick bag featuring Her Majesty’s face.<\/p>\n At the time BBC obituaries editor Nick Serpell tweeted of the crass cutaway: “The bizarre sight of Fearne Cotton examining Jubilee sick bags had me reaching for one of my own.”<\/p>\n Thousands complained about the day’s ‘inane’ coverage and endless chats with celebs, while Sir Stephen Fry slammed it as “mind-numbingly tedious,” adding he “expected better of the Beeb”.<\/p>\n Now the BBC has set its new precedent and excuse – expect to see less royal pageantry on the Beeb and more bemoaning their “funding challenges”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.express.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The licence fee-funded BBC may feel ‘obliged’ to broadcast royal events but we all know left-wing Auntie’s ideologically opposed to our monarchy – now they have finally proved it. 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