Dismantling British royal family?

Question

what would be the legal procedure if the British people wanted a republic only without any royal association i.e. they wanted to do away with royalty altogether

Answer 1

Parliament would have to decide.And as most people do not want to do away with the family,it's not going to happen any time soon.

Answer 2

I hope the British people would continue to keep institutions like the monarchy in place.  It seems to me that many non-British subjects are in favor of such a measure, vice home grown authentic British subjects.

Answer 3

Well, the French made use of the guillotine...

Oh. But I'm from the colonies, so...

Answer 4

The Parliament is the only group of people who can abolish the monarchy, there needs to be a good reason why the monarchy needs to be abolished and the consensus for abolishment has to be unanimous. Most of the British do not want to have the monarchy abolished, and the Irish do not have any say whatsoever in this particular decision, even though the majority of the Irish want to see the monarchy dissolved.

Answer 5

Dismantling the British Royal Family? Dude, where would your economy go? I live in the US and i can't think of one British inport we buy that doesn't have the Queen's face on it, If you get rid of her, people like me (people with money) wouldn't really care about investing with your country because then you'll just be another France.

Answer 6

A referendum with a good majority in favour of ditching the parasites would see the job done

Answer 7

I would not want any part of that.  That is just plain silly.

That sounds like something only a fool, infidel and idiot would cook up.

Answer 8

Given that the Scottish Executive is calling for a referendum for seceding from the United Kingdom by 2010, the stage is already set for a referendum for all British and Commonwealth citizens (or is it subjects) on whether to keep a constitutional monarchy.  This solution is much preferable to the usual historical option: civil war and the resulting, perhaps short-lived, republic, tried between roughly 1640 to 1660.  Presumably, Parliament could handsomely pension-off the Royal Family.

But back to the Scottish devolvement: Alex Salmond, the leader of the Scottish Nationalist Party, favors retaining the present monarch, Elizabeth, moving the clock back to 1603 when the crowns of England and Scotland were united in the personal union of James I of England and VI of Scotland.   Meanwhile, the Scottish Green Party and the Scottish Socialist Party are calling for an independent republic.  Ireland, of course, became a Republic when it broke away from the United Kingdom as did the United States.