And can we please stop bringing genetics into the royalty myth? Most of us will have noticed by now that people generally have two parents. Thus only half of Charlie's genes are from Mummy. Likewise Charlie has one quarter from George 6, one eighth from George 5 and one sixteenth from Viccy. That's 2 chromosomes out of 32. Go back any further, and you can forget it.

No, I don't believe in kings, any more than I believe in the tooth fairy. But abolish them? Why bother? It won't make any odds, and the way they're going now, they'll abolish themselves soon enough, without us having to do the work.

I don't think they do any real harm, they just don't live on the same planet as me.

Crane Driver