I always assumed that the threat to the monarchy would come from what was once the New Right. There is no possible compatibility between Thatcherism and hereditary office.
But just as it is really the resurgent Old Right that, with the Left, would benefit from the lowering of the voting age, enfranchising Second, arguably Third, or very arguably Fourth Wave Fogeyism; and just as it is those same two that would do best out of a new, elected second chamber; so it is they that would be the most conspicuous winners from a move to an elected Co-Presidency the assent of which would be required for the exercise of the Royal Prerogative.
Of course, from the chant even at rugby (rugby!) matches, to last night's Gogglebox, a kind of parallel republican-monarchy has arisen spontaneously in this country in the last two years. The question of the succession will eventually present itself. But it will not present many, if any, difficulties.
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