How Queen Elizabeth's Death Could Lead To The Abolition Of The British Monarchy

The death of Queen Elizabeth will be such a sad day for the British public, but it may open new possibilities for the U.K. One of the longest-standing issues associated with the death of the Queen is the possible abolition of the monarchy.

The question of whether or not the monarchy will be able to survive after Queen Elizabeth’s death is something that nobody can answer this soon. However, speculations are rife that even if the monarchy stays after the death of the Queen, the royal family might cease to provide the country with a sovereign who’s as effective as the one established by Queen Elizabeth over the years.

Queen Elizabeth has a lot to do with the strength of the current monarchy. According to experts, the royal family owes a huge deal to the Queen’s skill and character. Not only did she enable the U.K.’s monarchy to survive the general collapse of the monarchy, but she also sustained remarkable popularity by being an uncontroversial unifying figure in Britain. Unlike Prince Charles, Queen Elizabeth does not give interviews, and her public pronouncements reinforce Christian values.

Through the years that she has led the monarchy, the Queen has never been scandalized or has never acted divisively. She also has very minimal intervention in the Scottish Referendum, and she has been entirely silent about the controversy that is Brexit. On the other hand, Prince Charles is more opinionated and is clearly less popular.

According to royal experts, there will come a time when the heir to the throne will recognize that sacrificing anonymity and the right to self-expression — which Queen Elizabeth has successfully done since the beginning of her reign — is simply too much for him to bear. When that time comes, Prince Charles and the entire British monarchy might campaign for their own end.

With Queen Elizabeth still reigning, there is no move to dissolve the monarchy. Given how much of the stability of the royal family depends on the love of the British public for the Queen, however, an appetite for a public vote on the monarchy becomes certainly conceivable once Prince Charles takes over. As royal expert Dan Snow once put it, nothing is sacred — not even the British monarchy.

“Referenda are dangerous things,” he said. “You’ve only got to get 51 percent once for a revolution. Salmond skillfully used a perfect storm of issues to take the British state, one of the oldest, richest and most successful on earth, to the point of dissolution,” he added.