Here’s what I don’t get about England with the financial situation and the situation with Islamists increasingly bullying the rest of the country: England is a monarchy; a constitutional monarchy, yes, but a monarchy nonetheless. The one advantage of a monarchy over a republic is that its sovereign has the sole duty and responsibility of ensuring that the country lasts into the future; it is after all the monarch’s only heritage for her children. So why is the queen, why are the other royals, not telling the truth that the politicians won’t? It’s their one unique power, gift even, to be able to be above politics and act entirely in the public interest, and yet they do nothing. I simply don’t get that.