Kings

As long as I am questioning things that boggle me, here is another one:  Why does England have the Royals? What do they do, exactly?  They own a lot of land, which commoners cannot walk on or use in any way.  They have numerous homes (castles) replete with servants, which they do not pay for, they only have to let commoners visits certain parts on certain days and times (oh, what a bother).  They have no political control, only attend state events and have their faces on everything from tea, posters and biscuits.  Basically, they help the tourist industry, but, again, who cares?  Well, there must be people that do.  You know the ones.  The same people that buy people magazine must get the same designer dresses, jewelry and suits and haircuts and quest to be Royal.  Again, I don’t get it.  It seems to me that it would be a lot cheaper to get rid of the whole Royalty thing.  But what would they do?  I mean they don’t have last names, have never worked and arguable couldn’t even make a sandwich if hungry.  Maybe the Royals are like upper class welfare?  Now that is something to think about!