SIR - Even if the cost of the British monarchy was low, the institution does not sit comfortably in a modern democracy where people in high positions of power and influence are expected to be accountable and elected.
We like to believe we live in a meritocracy, where people achieve due to their ability and not because they are born into it. But in fact the monarchy is also very expensive.
It is acknowledged, even amongst royalists as the most expensive in Europe and it is certainly much more expensive than any Head of State in a comparable republic.
Whatever a British King or Queen did in the past, whether good or bad, and history tells us there have been examples of both, time moves on and the institution of hereditary monarch is very much an outdated one and remnant from a by-gone age of deference and privilege.
Today, the British people deserve the right to democratically elect a Head of State of their own choosing.
David Hornsby, West View Avenue, Wrose
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