Oh, but my dear Madame Royale, as much as I esteem your most noble person I must disagree. I would refer you to the long list of countries that have tossed out, shot, burned, hanged, beheaded, drawn and quartered, chopped to pieces, poisoned, garrotted and otherwise "sent into the Great Void" a long list of most royal personages. I will not discuss what they did to poor Edward II, I think it was. But even that was a result not of his private, hopefully he did not DO IT in public, as much as his lack of political acumen, an all too common failing in elected much less hereditary politicians. In the overwhelming majority of cases things did not get better, but au contraire, got much, and in many cases much, much worse indeed downright horrible.
So yes you do have any number of alternatives to judge by. None of them very good. Here even in the most rabid of republics I suspect that there are more than a few, looking up the political ruin that this country now is, who might begin to think that the grand and glorious Revolution may have been a mistake. I am most certainly among them. Cheers.
PS And I always thought Australia, apart from the crocodiles, poisonous snakes and various insects and sea life, was and is a lovely place with wonderful people.
