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@cstross

While a monarchy is of course an outmoded concept I do like the idea that there’s someone who is (supposed to be) beyond politics and whose job (as it were) is to maintain the dignity and basic structure of the government.

I’m thinking of Juan Carlos I during Spain’s attempted coup in 1981, for example.

The problem is that there’s no guarantee of the monarch doing the right thing, and they only have soft power anyway, and there’s also the whole “heredity power is bad” thing…so yeah.