Why abolish monarchies?

[EastAnglianLefty]

What is Prince William or Prince Edward going to do if there is no monarchy in Britain anymore?

Edward had a tolerably successful career in TV production, so would probably be alright even if the family's assets were expropriated. William would probably have to depend on the rubber chicken circuit, but I don't think he'd starve.

[EastAnglianLefty]

I'm joining the chorus of "soft republicans" in this thread with the addition that, as someone who lives in the first republic to be founded in modern times, I've recently noticed hostility to random foreign monarchies coming into vogue as a way for young Americans to sound like radical leftists without actually focusing on the US's own problems. These days I have a reflexive distrust for the motives of any American who focuses like a laser on the evils of the House of Windsor rather than more relevant issues.

The House of Mountbatten-Windsor is still relevant, that is why
Britain is still a superpower, in a sense

Both of those two sentences can be questioned, but more importantly there is no connection between them.