Getting steamed up about the royals seems a pointless diversion from the real enemies of liberty.

It's rather as if people were to start huffing and puffing about the danger to pedestrians caused by brewers drays. Once upon a time, true enough - but these days it's the vehicles driven by internal combustion engines that are the danger, not the occasional picturesque horse-drawn wagon.

Royals are just lottery prizewinners, but winners in a different sort of lottery, one of birth, which seems tom involve an expectation that they should work rather harder at trying to justify their existence than the people who just bought a lucky ticket in the ordinary lottery.