On the comments below: you couldn't be more republican than I am, and I still find some of the more misogynist personal attacks horrifying. An example: when someone accuses Kate Middleton of "flashing her boobs", what they actually mean is that she was in a private setting, alone with her husband, miles from any other house or even a road, and a creepy little shit saw fit to sneak images of her topless and sell them to anyone who would pay. In this country, someone who did that to anyone reading this would be committing an indictable sexual offence which could potentially earn time on the Sex Offender Register. And rightly so. To sneer that a woman subjected to that lacks dignity is utterly disgusting victim-blaming and I can only regard such comments with the revulsion and disgust they deserve.
The need to demonise members of that family to justify republicanism is weird and also incredibly stupid. By getting into arguments on personal merit you are conceding the argument, firstly because in most cases assessments of that kind are subjective, anyway, and secondly because in this context they are irrelevant. Arguing that these people are cunts who don't deserve their position is implicitly to argue that, were they not cunts, they might. They could be the Holy Host and they still wouldn't deserve to be in a position of deified glory based solely on their emergence from the correct birth canal. It is absolutely bonkers as a means of selecting a head of state - craziness beyond description - and the likeability and decency of the family members can't alter that in either direction. And if you work on the basis that they are people like any other and the sanctifying and worship is nuts, then you also concede that they are people like any other and the dehumanising and hatred of them is the flipside of the worship. Both attitudes are, frankly, mindless. There is a basic level of respect every human being deserves. I don't care who they are.
I'm not talking about cost, or financial behaviours, or political interventions, or even work record (though you're on dodgy ground to an extent with the last two where the Queen is concerned, given her only recorded intervention was against Thatcher over apartheid, which I imagine most of us would applaud, and similarly the Queen does personally work hard, because the engagements are just part of her role; she also has the workload of a cabinet minister in paperwork terms... I just don't think that matters, when the selection process is remembered). But making personal attacks on another woman based on her legs showing in the wind, and being stalked by someone who took shots of her topless in private... that's pretty sick, and the snobbery aimed her way is wince-inducing, too. Similarly the attacks on the younger girls for being plain Janes was cruel - that's beyond their control. None of it is remotely relevant to their position.
The royal family entrench snobbery in the system. It's also been a system of male-preference primogeniture. Those are two of the things I loathe about it as an institution - so seeing snobbery and misogyny wielded as weapons against it makes me sigh. It's depressing, quite how reflex those things are in people, and in people who loudly proclaim their freedom from the instincts whilst openly displaying them. Some things are just... wrong. And context does not alter that. They aren't okay used against those you dislike, but abhorrent in those you dislike. They are wrong and that is all.