SIR – Power in the UK is in the hands of elected parliamentarians, in essence the basic or most important feature of meritocracy. So why does David Hornsby (Letters, April 4) excoriate the Queen, who is but a figurehead and not an absolute monarch?
She has devoted her life to our service and has been an ambassador par excellence. If Republican David Hornsby and others of that ilk feel that the monarchy is an anachronism and would rather live in a country that has a president, why don’t they emigrate and become ex-pats in say Zimbabwe or Syria, with a proviso they never return?
D Rhodes, Croscombe Walk, Bradford
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