God save the queen, but even without the support of the Most High, the royal family has a long life. Witness the age of Queen Elizabeth, 95, and the longevity of her husband Philip, who passed away last summer shortly after her 100th birthday. And this is confirmed by a scientific study, according to which the Windsors live on average 26 years longer than their subjects.
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According to research conducted by Professor Les Mayhew for the International Longevity Center, a London charity, and for the Bayes Business School, one of the best universities in England, only one hundred thousand of its subjects, out of a total population of 68.5 million, are currently older than Elizabeth II. In percentage terms, the report, published by the Daily Telegraph. This means that for every member of the royal family who reaches 100 years of age, the average citizen has a life expectancy of 74 years, which is 26 years less.
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What are the reasons for such a great disparity? For the authors of the report, genetics has to do with it: Elizabeth’s mother lived up to 101 years and many in the royal family have had a long life. But other factors also have an impact, also underlined in the comments of the readers of the article in the British newspaper: the Windsors are much richer than their subjects and receive the best medical care. Coincidentally this morning a survey on the Guardian reveals that one in four citizens fear that they will not have access to the necessary treatment due to the crisis of funds and personnel of the National Health Service, a situation made even more dramatic by the pandemic, which delays checkups and interventions for millions of people giving the priority in the fight against Covid.
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Other reasons cited by readers, with a more polemical tone: the royal family lives in a castle, is served and revered by dozens of servants and basically spends its existence in idleness. Although His Majesty, as head of state, was engaged in hundreds of official ceremonies a year, which he has given up only in the last six months for health reasons not better specified by Buckingham Palace.
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