""Without being rude, are you in a position to tell the people that live in the UK, pay part their portion of taxable income to the monarchy, who read about them every day, are taught about them in school, see them on TV virtually every day, in the papers every day, are familiar with their history both ancient and modern, hear them expound their views, follow their careers, their relationships, visit their homes, live amongst 1500 years of history that includes much strife and war, and are directly linked to that history?""
Do you know, I rather think that the answer to your question is YES! HE IS!
The reason being that he is observing the situation much more objectively than any Anti-Monarchist Brit who starts from a position of envy and inverted snobbery.