[gandalftb]

The royals have many fine qualities and seem to be decent and caring people.

I admire them personally, those that have have served in war and peace for the good of all the world’s people.

My problem is not with them personally, it is with the idea of inheriting political power by right of birth.

Celebrating the presence of any king or queen in Britain, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, etc. is an obscenity.

The difference with Britain is that they have had a ringside seat to the primacy and dominance of a Republic form of government and yet sully themselves with royalty.

American “commoners” will always stand taller than anyone’s royalty. To all Brit commoners: you can do better, the sorriest Irishman has more dignity.

[Winniesboy]

My problem is not with them personally,it is with the idea of inheriting political power by right of birth.

Aversion to inherited political power is not inconsistent with admiration for the British model of constitutional monarchy, since the monarchy has no political power, inherited or otherwise.