Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honour millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead; even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

What would abolition of the Monarchy in the UK mean?

There have always been calls to abolish the monarchy. In the United Kingdom, this happened following the execution of Charles I and the restoration of Charles II. The turbulence of the rule of parliament was so great that it was necessary to bring the monarchy back. At the time of the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the idea of a constitutional monarchy was truly born and gave a much greater stability and even greater economic success enabling the United Kingdom to become a significant power on the world stage.

Were those who call for a republic to get their way and abolish the monarchy for an elected head of state, the country would lose a great sense of its national identity. The head of state would be just another elected official with no necessary commitment to the country beyond their term of office. We have seen in the United Kingdom a more cynical attitude by politicians to the idea of serving the country. Deals are done behind closed doors and the public is not informed of what is going on. Indeed, the public cannot know all the details of decisions done in their name but we have seen, even in the UK, corruption in government going unchecked, especially during the recent COVID outbreak. Politicians, even prime ministers, have been shown to be self-serving, rather than nation serving. A monarch has a decided interest in ruling wisely knowing that the flourishing of the Royal Family is inextricably linked with the quality of their service to the country.

With the abolition of the monarchy comes a loss of history, tradition, memory and identity of the country. This impact this has leads to an alienation of the population from the country. If there is no sense of national identity, then there is no reason for people to see themselves as belonging to something bigger, something loveable, something which though flawed is nonetheless worth belonging to and seeking its good. Such an alienation fragments society into groups of individuals living in communities but with no need to commit to those communities beyond what they can get out of them. There would be a loss of national pride, and of having something to share with people from other countries and other cultures. With a loss of national identity, we lose a little bit of our identity as people within community. An abolition of the monarchy would diminish each member of the population on account of this.