The Brits faced the impossible challenge. They couldn’t have kept their old political system in a new democratized world. But an empire so renowned for (and deriving so much of its strength from) its monarchy could not simply have abolished it. They’ve done a brilliant thing and invented a new kind of balance, one that combines the best of two worlds: the short-term stability of a democracy (giving people the impression that they are empowered to control their own destiny) and the long-term stability (having a uniting figure, a symbol to be proud of and worship–as the desire to worship is in my opinion one of the most fundamental traits of mankind).

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