WAV ~ what is so automatically and intrinsically great about elected heads of state? Hitler was elected Chancellor {OK, I know, Godwin's Law - but the observation happens to be appropriate here}; Mao; Pol Pot...

It is at least arguable that it the non-elected condition of the monarchy that gives the institution its peculiar symbolic and unifying force. I know I am begging the question as to whether such exists, and many on this forum decline to acknowledge it; but it is surely what motivates the 75% revealed by poll after poll who want to keep the monarchy in its present state and avatar.

~M~