Reason for monarchy is no longer apparent

AS Alan Debenham wrote in his letter of February 10th, the public is losing interest in the monarchy. A symptom of that is how members of the royal family are everywhere in the media of late, since the accession of King Charles. Similarly with Rishi Sunak (witness Sunak’s visit to the Plymouth factory). It is a sign that they are getting the jitters.

The reason for monarchy is no longer apparent, as it was in the days of the British Empire. Mr Debenham told us that £345 million (and the rest, I suggest) per year goes from our taxes to the monarchy. Europe’s two most highly paid presidents are Viola Amherd (Switzerland) on £545,183 per year, and Michael D Higgins (Ireland) on £330,00 per year.

The empire has shrunk down to Britain (the UK) and a few islands scattered around the world. Britain, the United Kingdom, is on its last legs.

It is almost inevitable that

Scotland will become independent again. Scotland will be followed by Wales. Northern Ireland will integrate with Ireland, or become a separate Ultish (Ulster-British/ Irish entity. England (the North, the Midlands and East Anglia) will assert its separate identity, as will Wessex, out of growing frustration with Westminster and its preferential treatment of London, which is a foreign country with an alien population to most Britons.

When monarchy goes can it take with it all those dukes, earls, marquesses, viscounts, knights and the other relics of feudalism, such as Member of the British Empire (MBE), Order of the British Empire (OBE) and Commander of the

British Empire (CBE)? (We haven’t got an empire).

The Ruritanian image makes us a joke in the eyes of the rest of the world. No Wonder Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland want to distance themselves from it.

Robert Craig Weston-super-Mare, Somerset