"The Guardian, a respected left wing publication,"
It is not a left-wing paper, it is middle of the road, though to some people anything more moderate than Mein Kampf would be left wing.
Anybody who claims to know that %36 of anywhere thinks one way or the other is telling porkies - the statistics for such a claim simply do not exist - or you can show me they do other than by presenting a claim by a paper you have invented a political stance for.
No statistic - no basis for a claim - we don't even get a vote on the issue, which, at least would show how much of a minority the monarchy is.
You claims have no foundation in either fact or reality.
I think you are one of the only vociferous pro-Royal cap-doffer I have ever come across in my life - most people, as I have said, ton't give a toss.
And again, I repeat, if it were a fact that the majority of people were pro-royal, it wouldn't mean a thing - have you looked at the charts lately!!
Jim Carroll