The late Roger Scruton expressed the paradox eloquently when he likened the magic of monarchy to the enchanting light from the top of a Christmas tree, which the British people perfectly well remembered having climbed up and placed there themselves.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/09/10/no-coincidence-successful-democracies-constitutional-monarchies1/

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