Re: (Our View, June 8)

In the publicB次元官网网址檚 emotional mind, 60-plus years on the throne will have inextricably identified the British monarchy with its (possibly) longest-serving Queen, having set the Royal bar to virtually unattainable heights for even the B次元官网网址淲ills and KatesB次元官网网址� of the succession order.

For the people B次元官网网址� and theyB次元官网网址檒l always be the ones that count B次元官网网址� the Queen has become the monarchy and the monarchy has become the Queen.

Ironically, the QueenB次元官网网址檚 uniquely personal success may well prove a harbinger of the CrownB次元官网网址檚 eventual constitutional demise. Once sheB次元官网网址檚 gone, the falling B次元官网网址渞epublicanB次元官网网址� dominos of the Commonwealth countries may well hasten BritainB次元官网网址檚 process of rethinking its constitutional foundations.

Indeed, that process has already started with a debate on an elected House of Lords.

What must not happen is for the monarchy simply, over time, to become the victim of popular indifference.

Edward Bopp

Tsawwassen