Royals aren't leaders, any more than Pearly Kings and Queens, and in principle they are basically in the same game. It strikes me they are currently being used as a kind of lightning conductor to take attention away from the real stuff. People seriously seem to think that getting rid of them would somehow move us towards a more egalitarian society. Like the USA or France or Russia, for example?

I wouldn't cross the road to save the monarchy - but I wouldn't lift a finger to abolish it. I feel about as exercised about their unearned wealth as I do about that of other lottery winners.

The "real stuff" is the way the hereditary principle prospers elsewhere, where it really matters - for example the Murdoch Dynasty, or the Bush Dynasty.