We humans do love our dress-up games and flaunting our wealth and power. Queen Elizabeth was crowned when I was a small girl and I thought she looked a lot like my own mother, who deserved a crown if anyone did (of course, that comment is made in retrospect). I would have to study monarchies vs representative forms of government before I could weigh in on the which-is-better side though at this writing no form of government seems to be doing well.
And speaking of writing, I wrote something for you at Writing Down the Words 