Badger - I agree with some but not all of the above.
I do hope that William gets the job sooner or later that's for sure.
I also think that immediate Royals - Andrew excluded -are huge figures for tourism etc and so I think they should still be employed but no doubt some need to be cast aside.
The male/female thing needs changing as well.
Good points!

Andrew-type tourism can all go off to some other country. Somewhere far-away and hot. Where other dodgy old fellas go to ply their trade.

I reckon Charles will finally get to increase his popularity. The low point was at the Death of Diana. Now he is centre stage, i reckon he will do a better job than many had expected.

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I am still sad about our Queen which as I am a republican surprises me, however I think of her as my favourite grandmother.

There is now a brief gap before Charles's coronation which he and Parliament should use to shape his reign. I hope they don't waste he opportunity.

Anyway some suggestions on modernising the monarchy:

- Should we even have a monarch? Reluctantly I say yes. There is no support to abolish the monarch and we still need a ceremonial head of state "President Reality TV star / Failed politician" anyone?

- Line of succession. Women are discriminated so Anne was behind Andrew even though she was older. This needs to end. Catholics are barred from the throne this needs to end.

- Head of the Church of England. The UK is the only western democracy with a state religion which puts us in the same company as the middle east. The COE needs to be disestablished and the Archbishop of Canterbury recognised as the head of the church. The monarch should be free to practice whatever religion they like.

- The Firm. It's time to break up this cozy little cartel. The new firm should be the monarch and consort and the heir and that is it. All other members of the royal family should be thanked for their service and told they are now private citizens. Sorry Meghan you are out.

- King Charles III. I doubt he will be as popular as his mother. He has waited his whole life for this job so it would seem churlish to deny him now. However if he wants to protect his reign and the monarchy the smart move would be to announce a time limit on his reign e.g. 5 years after which he would step aside for William. If he hangs on like his mother did he will only cause problems for the future.

- There is no such thing as a job for life. Most other European monarchs now abdicate when they find the job too hard to do. The royal family need to accept that retirement is normal even the pope does it.

The focus will now be on the funeral but it will be interesting to see if any of the above happens, if it doesn't it will be a wasted opportunity.

I support the idea of monarchy without supporting this woke mess of one.

All they essentially care about is remaining in power. The British don't have a monarchy who see themselves as representing them. What they have is a monarchy that sees itself as representing the Commonwealth.

That frankly is meaningless to me.

If anyone looks at the crowd who turned up outside Buckingham Palace to pay their respects they will note that they were practically all white and that's in a city with roughly 40 percent remaining in it.....ironically the clip I'll use to prove that comes from the Guardian...oh ironies of ironies.

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That is a clear indication that despite all the wokeness and pandering in the world the vast majority of non native British care little for them.

The ridiculous narrative that often plays out in 'everybody loving everybody' and living in a joyous multicultural harmony with only white people causing obstruction to that is the most lunacy based and unequivocally incorrect projection that has ever existed.