with it. Statistically, someone from a poor background is either going to be exceptional or very average. Those from a wealthier background will on average have a higher standard of education and opportunities, and this will be reflected in their abilities. Having a ruler that was born not made had several benefits: The legitimate ruler is from a fairly small pool, and there aren't too many fights. Sure, there was the war of the roses, but England is not like the Byzantine Empire. When monarchs were good at ruling, they ruled, when they didn't want to, they had better men help them. Take Henry VIII with Wolsey and Cromwell. They were not from wealthy backgrounds, but the monarch allowed them to effectively run the government day to day. Monarchs received some of the best educations in the land and learned from a young age what they needed to be able to do. Henry VIII (again) could speak many different languages, was academically able, and had learned what he was good at and what he was not good at. Fair enough if you like Tory ideology, but to call them intelligent is ridiculous. They are corrupt and incompetent schoolboys who haven't given you quite what you want (eg EU referendum), doing fuck all for the economy and persecuting so called benefit/disabled cheats while turning a blind eye to tax evasion. To say the electorate recognises that ignores the ~70% of people who didn't vote for them and the even greater number