Because remnants of the "middle age" are not too easy to find these days and when you have a good one you tend to hold on to it. I'm British and I don't want to see the monarchy disappear.
Go for a walk in the City and you can see nearly two thousand years of British history.
* London Wall
* The Tower of London (to the east)
* St. Paul's
* Bunhill Fields (to the north)
* The Bank of London
* The Gherkin
* The Guildhall
* The Strand and Temple (to the west)
The monarchy should disappear because keeping some posh people in gilded cages by virtue of birth is fundamentally incompatible with liberal democracy.
It's not the same thing. Objects exists from every period. Living relics do not. I'm British, but I was not born in the UK. There is some charm to the entire thing of a long lasting tradition along side modernity. I don't see it as incompatible at all. I know enough republicans to know it's not a point that has a point of arguing about.
The British monarchy is a live institution and should be viewed as such. Republicans using the fact it’s been around for over a thousand years (with a few hiccoughs) are not making the argument they think they are making.
