LET THE British rest assured that 'going republic' ('Who wants a republic', 23 October) need not mean the end of pomp and circumstance, nostalgic glamour and soap operatic scandals; nor indeed of entrenched social hierarchies: ex-Hapsburg Austria is a prime example.
Dr Gerlinde Hardt-Mautner, Lancaster
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