Sorry, Megan, but a lot of us like many things already and have lived to tell the tale!

My own stance is weakly republican: I would rather we didn't have the royal family and would want them to have no influence in the political process (including any letter writing except in the general post with the rest of us.). But I do not feel strongly enough to campaign for their removal.

I see the comment above above how much the royal family bring into the country. The fact is, we don't know and it all depends on what assumptions you make and what you take into account. For example, you should only count tourists who come into the U.K because we have a monarchy, not all the tourists. And as it is some factor, from near enough zero to highly significant in every tourist, how on earth can you disentangle that? Then are the coming because we have a monarch (who they are unlikely to see anyway, and even less likely to see if see if off in balmoral while they are in London!), or is the the trappings they want to see, like Buckingham Palace? After all, the palaces of St Petersburg draw quite a crowd.

No, just what the royal family is worth to us is a best an estimate that is highly dependant on who is doing the estimating.