Monarchy

Monarchy is Losting Support in UK

Having her 60th anniversary in 2012, Queen Elizabeth Ⅱ has ascended to the British throne from 1952 since her father’s gone away. Britain is one of the few countries, where monarchy is still pervasive. The monarchy has a long history since 10th century. Although it represents the traditional British cultural ideology, it is losing the power gradually and facing increasing questions on its necessity of existence. In such a democratic society, does monarchy do any contribution to a nation’s development? To what extent British monarchy plays the democratic role and helps the progress of the UK? Does it increase the national income or aggravate the economic burden of citizen and what are today’s citizen’s views on monarchy, do they still support the monarchy? Some voice says that monarchy is a mistake of this era. Weather monarchy is an anachronism is not a simple question. However, this essay would like to see why monarchy is becoming more and more unacceptable in a democratic country.

In a democratic nation, monarchy is losing its position these days. Since it has no real power, it may also have no harm to stay there. Being a dysfunctional shell in UK, it occupies more but contributes less (Smith, 2009). Nowadays, Queen only plays a ceremonial role and is almost far away from the society. According to a newspaper report by Malkin (2011), during the visit to UK, Australia prime minister, Paul Keating told Queen that monarchy was an anachronism and he was striking to find that the hereditary position is so lack of power and the Queen was remote from any modern head of state. He even told Queen that the trip would more favorable if the Britain has no monarch (Malkin, 2011). Actually, the hereditarily monarchy does not practically participate into the government action, and she acts like a figurehead and no other functions. In present day, the royal family is regarded...