Elect the monarch

WE as a nation have lost our mother

figure. The question is, will Charles iii prove to be a father figure? it is so long since the last Coronation that few people understand that constitutionally it is in effect an election.

Those assembled to represent the people are asked whether they are willing to accept the first in line to the throne: they are invited to answer ‘yea’ or ‘nay’.

The whole procedure harks back to the times when such issues were merely historical formalities and the outcomes were in effect done deals.

in the 21st century, it is time to reassert the purpose and objectivity of the Coronation, which is to elect the nation’s governor and leader.

The decision on who governs the nation could be placed in the hands of the people, in a referendum.

The duly elected monarch is the official governor of the nation, the government of the day being no more than a temporally delegated authority. if the democratic principle of the nation’s constitutional rule of law, to which all other law is subordinate, is to be upheld and maintained, there is no other way.

i believe that, given a choice, people would vote for the Prince of Wales, a statesman and father figure of proven worth and ability.

We would be gaining a Queen in the Princess of Wales, a gracious lady

already beloved by the nation as a mother figure. They are the right people to lead this great nation forward.

BOB LOMAS, Magna Carta Society, Horsham, W. Sussex.