Importance of Monarchy

How important is the Monarchy in Britain?

To answer this question first of all, we have to know how Monarchy was created. The British have been a monarchy now for most of the last thousand years. When the Roman Empire began to crumble, the Roman Church began to establish itself over the same empire in its own right. Rather than exert direct military power, the way it did this was to endorse the idea of monarchy and to claim that monarchs reigned only with God's permission, this means, that the Church could remove troublesome monarchs by exerting pressure on other monarchs to raise armies for it. Monarchy became a requirement of Catholic Europe and, for the time being, british were stuck with it.
Ironically, the first rumblings of dissent came because of the very church that had endorsed it. Crusades: attempts to retain the crumbling assets of Rome's eastern empire, in Britain, the barons and nobles began to demand the right to disapprove of the resultant taxation. This led, vi...