The caption under the picture of King Charles which accompanied Agustin Mackinlay’s letter on the benefits of constitutional monarchies (“Reason British politics retains its moderate tone”, August 3) states that they “avoid the question many republics grapple with”.
No, sir: the accurate verb is surely “solve” (the question being the clear separation of the roles of head of state and prime minister or political chief executive). Indeed it seems not too much to say that, for that very reason, republics are an essentially immature form of government.
Giles Conway-Gordon
Ronan, MT, US
