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yes, but then who would be the centralizing political figure for the British world including the Commonwealth Nations?

Colonialism aside, the contemporary monarchy in the UK is a genius political move at unity and coalition building, people can throw all their muck at the ministers, and enjoy the unifying presence of the Queen and the Royal family, I say 149 million pounds is a very small price to pay to unify millions of people under a common British identity and government, even though many are Africans and Asians, much more unifying than a few thousand nurses and teachers.

The apolitical power of the monarchy is the very source of its political potency. People do not hold the monarchy accountable for the ills in government like they do the ministers. If the US had a comparible political figurehead, there would be so much less division amongst Americans, instead it is every-man-for-himself politricks, Democrat vs Republican vs Everybody else, there is no common ground, the Queen for many British citizens is that common ground.

This was the exact same genius which the Ethiopian monarchy employed, and today, the republic is in the shambles of ethnic nationalism and division, where as under the monarchy there was a common sense of national identity which is now lost.