[joeysteele]

While it's true we did have a civil war in the Country,that was a vastly different time, for my part after reading loads about it, I would still have fought on the Royalist side then.
The Monarch then however had absolute rule,(unlike now), the civil war was as to who held the greater power or all the power, Monarch or Parliament. Not that anyone at that time in Britain had any lawful right to try a King,the Monarch was the highest law in the land.

Even then again though, after only 11 years, the people soon were screaming out for a return to a Monarchy,which was then restored in 1660,having been abolished in 1649.

Different rules then applied to the Monarch after that though and Parliament had much greater control of events.
Today, the Monarch has no real power but still commands its status and I don't think it matters who is on the throne, the Queen is a perfect Ambassador for the UK,she is adored by the vast majority, I believe though, the generation of William and Harry and their children are only likely to strengthen the position of the Monarchy further and that will be the great legacy left by this Queen through her descendants.