Personally, I prefer the idea of a benign, benevolent, non-political, ceremonial HoS - the Queen being a good example - to a US-style elected President, but I dislike the ‘hereditary’ element of our ‘Royals’ arrangement. I’d be delighted if we changed the UK’s system completely, to something akin to the RoI’s arrangement - probably a PR system of government with a PM elected by Parliament, and a non-political, ceremonial-only HoS elected by the general electorate.

Whilst I have a degree of respect for the Queen as an individual and, to a lesser degree, her immediate family, in this day and age I find the idea of the role of HoS being reserved for members of one grossly over-privileged family, and for no better reason than ‘that’s how it is’, and the inference that the Royals are somehow ‘better’ than everyone else, an insult to the rest of society.