While I definitely think things like the protections Andrew is getting and the special exceptions Charles gets as a landlord among others need to be dealt with, I've no strong feelings one way or another on abolishment.
I mean, the reforms to the House of Lords to shift from hereditary to life peers has had benefits, and there are benefits to having people particularly those exceptional in their field helping to make laws not needing to be tied to political whims (though I think that needs to be reformed further so it feels less like it's an MP's retirement reward - a cap on that as there is on hereditary would be good). Any solution will have pros and cons, but there will hopefully be changes coming.
I do think the Brexit situation may make it so more people would want a far more clear plan than 'we'll just do what these other countries do'. That was common rhetoric on both sides, though more loudly Leave, on how problems would be dealt with and that's proven to be far too vague and these things are far complex that just getting rid and copy-pasta another country's system.
Its just a social construct that we've all chosen to believe in. It's not real and its being shown to be toxic and unhealthy.
Social constructs are real. Just because humans make it and give it meaning and weave it into how our societies function doesn't make something fake. Plenty of social animals have social constructs, even if they aren't as complex as ours, that define social structures and changing them has real impact.
The Royal Family objectively exists and is woven into how British society currently functions.Whether it should continue in its current form is debatable, but we can't just not believe it and make it disappear. Alterations will have real impacts, for better and for worse, just as they have impact now (even in their "apolitical" silence on issues) without changing. It's which impacts people find worth it enough to maintain or change.
I'm so tired of "it's just a social construct" as if something being a social construct makes it meaningless fiction and we can just pretend never existed or change to suit us with no thought - society is full of social construct that we all rely on, language is socially constructed, there is no "just", no matter how toxic or unhealthy something is when it has a population-level socially derived meaning that's part of how society functions.