Dear Sir,

The tagline 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 3rd), 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/political CEO). Indeed it seems not too much to say that, for that very reason, republics are an essentially immature form of government.

Yours faithfully
Giles Conway-Gordon