Barbados plans to replace Queen with ceremonial president

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Its for the same reason that there are still people in the NSW ALP who want the state division of Londonderry renamed Derry.

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Correct me if I'm wrong but I assume NZ and the Aussies will become republican once Liz takes her last breathe

That would probably depend on how Charlie does as King. It's true (as has been pointed out already) that patterns of support for Republicanism in Australia are partially generational in character and that specifically the Republican cause is linked with the generations that were young in the 1960s and 1970s (SHAME FRASER SHAME etc), but that doesn't mean that a turnaround is impossible, particularly with a new and less PR friendly monarch. Fundamentally the issue is not an important one, which means that minor changes can theoretically cause large shifts.

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...but are pretty ignorant of her role.

That would be because she doesn't really have one in Canada. Even her figurehead role is in practice delegated.

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Anyway. One thing I've always found strange. Why is it that on the whole and in practice British people are better Republicans than the French, even though we've not had a Republic for centuries and they've not had a monarch since the 1870s?

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The 65+ are the most monarchist in that 2014 poll and people being young in the 60s (= born 1935-1950) are bound to be a majority of those.

Young in the late 60s then

_{(but I was mostly thinking of stereotypes anyway, so...)}

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Anyway. One thing I've always found strange. Why is it that on the whole and in practice British people are better Republicans than the French, even though we've not had a Republic for centuries and they've not had a monarch since the 1870s?

What do you mean by better Republicans?

Well, France has a head of state-and-government who lives in a palace, who doles out state honours, and who plays a role in state ceremonies of much pomp. Holders of the office frequently engage in vanity projects and personal memorialisation. Just saying.