Correspondent: I think that your Six Points are very good, practical steps for change. But what about the need for constitutional reform? How do your proposals and those relating to constitutional change relate to each other?

Maestro: Thanks for raising this important point. It is Reform the Monarchy's contention that our monarchy is no longer ‘fit for purpose’ in the way that it functions on a day-to-day basis and needs to undergo important practical changes, as identified in our Six Points.

The debilitating effect of our unreformed monarchy serves to perpetuate an outdated social and democratic milieu which leaves Britain declining into international insignificance as it fails to respond effectively to the challenges of a rapidly changing world.

We shall, of course, support proposals for progressive constitutional changes affecting the monarchy, but with the best will in the world, we do not see constitutional reform being anything but a very slow process. Past experience bears this out. We are talking years, not months.

In the meantime, the changes we have identified need implementing in the short-term, and we want to encourage a public debate to assist in this happening. It is simply no longer feasible for Britain to flourish, either at home or abroad, when it is burdened with an insidious monarchical ethos which is anti-meritocratic and inegalitarian on the one hand and encourages neo-imperial hubris on the other.

Reform the Monarchy’s aim is to get our proposed changes widely discussed, democratically endorsed, and then implemented, thereby creating a climate that will facilitate constitutional reform.