That is a rather romanticised view of our country, Joe. The reality is that the Queen and her hangers-on represent the summit of unearned and undeserved privilege. They are generally pretty impregnable to any attacks on their wealth. They give back only what their consciences, or fear for their public image, dictates. The Queen volunteered to pay tax after decades of not doing so. I wish I could do that. Amazon and Google have nothing on the royals when it comes to tax avoidance. The upshot is that they are fabulously wealthy, owning a number of palaces and country estates, the latter largely dedicated to keeping the land fit for brainless shooting parties, an unmitigated environmental disaster. Charles owns huge tracts of the Westcountry (where I live) and profits immensely from the efforts of those who work his land while he fiddles, making vacuous speeches about the environment and architecture and revelling in the fake joys of homeopathy. He cheated on Diana, conducting his affair with the charmless and personality-bereft Camilla right up to his wedding with Diana. And now this paragon is the man we are expected to embrace as our beloved King, God save him. The Queen is wise enough to keep her head down and her mouth shut, but for all her wealth and advantage she has managed to produce a family of entitled complete misfits who marry and occasionally divorce other misfits who will all, without doubt, continue to produce even more misfits. Naturally, our media treads carefully around them. If only the hordes of people who love the royals could see through the whole shebang. Nicholas Witchell and the Daily Mail will always see to it that they don't...