FAQs

This page focuses on a series of questions frequently asked by the press or through The Royalists’ enquiries email.

  • A royalist is somebody who advocates for the institution of the monarchy.

    In the United Kingdom, by virtue of there being no serious rival claimants to the throne, the terms royalist and monarchist are essentially indistinguishable from one another.

  • The Royalists was established in 2016 as an educated and popular response to the rising tide of republicanism in the United Kingdom, which to that point had gone largely unquestioned and unbalanced.

    Royalists, who make up a significant majority in the United Kingdom, need an organised and dynamic group to represent them in the media and to counter republican misinformation with an intelligent, evidence-based defence of the monarchy. We do not seek to politicise the monarchy, or to create a unique brand of royalism: we are here to represent the mass of the population who support the institution but do not have accessible responses to common republican tropes.

    “The monarchy has been effective in providing a focus of loyalty above politics. It has made it possible for people who disagree radically about how the nation should be governed nevertheless to share an object of affection by which the nation as a whole is symbolised”

    - Roger Scruton

  • The Royalists is a grassroots, members-based, and not-for-profit organisation. Our income is sourced almost entirely from membership subscriptions and one-off donations.

  • The mission and objectives of The Royalists can be found by following this link.

    The movement also has codified principles, which can be found by following this link.