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[Pat Mustard]

Why does the monarchy persist if it's merely symbolic at this point?

It's not actually symbolic, there's no legal limit to the kijg's power. All he needs is to be sure enough that the army will obey him and to order them to march on parliament to take the power back de facto.

I seriously think that should Charles reign for any length of time he'll expose, through his inability to not meddle or push his often quite stupid opinions, tye fatal flaws in the UK's customary system and consequentially force both a constitution and a republic on England.