Have a close friend here who is British. She constantly talks about how much the monarchy brings in, in tourism and other regal themed events/products.

Just looking across the Atlantic and the last four years of Donald Trump’s presidency makes me appreciate that our UK parliamentary democracy with an apolitical monarch as titular head of state is better than any republic with an elected politician as president could ever be. The British monarchy needs modernising and reformed along the lines that the Scandinavian countries have taken, but I don’t think there is a case for abolition to replace it with a worse system. The modern democratic Parliamentary monarchies such as Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Netherlands work well, and produce the happiest and most affluent citizens in the world.