I think a slimmed down monarchy is the way forward. The country won’t put up with freeloaders like Andrew any more
It’s easy to bring the argument back to hereditary unfairness but that exists without the monarchy, here and around the world and will never change. Anti-royalists/republicans will always highlight the cost of the monarchy, however, nobody really knows what true benefit the monarchy brings/has brought us, whether through extra tourism, bringing the country together at certain times (24m people watched the Queens pandemic speech FFS) or things like soft power with world leaders who are usually falling over themselves to meet the Queen.
Im not convinced the monarchy lasts long term, certainly not in some commonwealth countries but whilst its here, it’s part of what makes our country and I think on balance probably for the better*…..however, even so, there was no way I was watching that ‘party’ last night !!!
*people like Johnson or Corbyn as an elected head of state…fuck that !