Why On Earth Would Anyone Want To Replace The Monarchy With A President?

[dave50]

Watching all the tradition, pomp and ceremony on display following the death of the Queen and even more o come when King Charles coronation, why anyone want to ditch all that? It would be madness. There is nothing else like it in the world, something to be very proud of. Its worth every penny and if someone starts talking about how many doctors and nurses for our "beloved" NHS would it pay for I think I will scream.

[davebro]

//"Elizabeth bears lineage from, amongst others, Armenian, Arab, British, Chinese, Cuman, Danish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Monégasque, Norwegian, Old Prussian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian, and Yugoslavian ethnicities." //

Did they come in rubber dinghies?

[Atheist]

If they'd come in rubber thingies, then we might not have had our Queen.

[jno]

if you take your ancestry back 1000 years, three or four generations a century, and you've got more ancestors than the number of humans who ever lived. (So you may be descened from the same individual more than once.)

You're quite likely descended from Charlemagne. So am I.

https://nautil.us/youre-descended-from-royalty-and-so-is-everybody-else-236939/

[Untitled]

if everyone's got a bit of royal blood then the Untitled monarchy by lottery is an even better idea!

[MissTerious]

I agree with Choux and Shirley. Our European friends are very jealous of our monarchy.