>My personal hope is that Charles is a bad monarch, and William turns out to be one too. That would probably be enough to get us a (ceremonial) presidency on th

>My personal hope is that Charles is a bad monarch, and William turns out to be one too. That would probably be enough to get us a (ceremonial) presidency on the Irish or Israeli model. There isn't really a whole lot that monarchs can do in this day and age to be "bad". The criticisms of Charles exist, of course, but the monarch doesn't really have to do anything other than avoid scandals and be a good figurehead. Replacing the monarch with what will, at best, be another faceless Labour / Tory MP doesn't exactly sound like something to be wished for as far as I'm concerned.