...which is they represent a system based on inherited influence and wealth.

They certainly do, but as well as representing it they spearhead it and legitimise it. They make it more possible for the House Of Lords to get stuffed with brainless toffs. They give credibility to the accelerated privilege of public school attendees and help to ensure that the cabinet, the City, the "elite" universities and the upper echelons of the armed forces will always be dominated by them. Their vast holdings of land and property implicitly justify the exploitation of the people who do the real work for the big landlords, who are the laziest, greediest, most useless and most damaging people in the country. In fact, they legitimise greed itself.The royals make all these things that much more possible and that much more difficult to oppose. They have the money, the power, the pageantry and the lackeys to put on grand shows that make them look the benign symbols that they are most assuredly not. Loving the royals is similar in many ways to believing in God: it requires a complete suspension of critical examination.