The British royal family does immense charity work that would suffer if the monarchy were to suddenly not exist. Promoting the image of the monarch might prove to be beneficial to society. Since the monarchy cannot involve itself in political matters, most of the work done by the royal family is through charities (Blond). When considering the idea of inherentism, in this case, charity is always a virtuous thing to do (Goodin). John Low, chief executive of the Charities Aid Foundation was quoted in The Guardian say that “‘We want to promote a culture where supporting charities by giving time or money is the norm. The Queen’s work for charities of all types is an example to all of us’” (Hodge). This same article finds that “the Queen has set an amazing example when it comes to her charitable support making an enormous difference to millions of people up and down the country; doing more for charity in the last 60 years than probably any other monarch in history” (Hodge). Since the royal family are such strong public figures, they take advantage of their position to bring attention to causes that are in need. According to inherentism, this action is inherently good, as doing work for charity is important to society. The royal family is setting a standard for how all British citizens should behave towards charity, and they become role models for everyone else. Disbanding the monarchy would pull the royal family out of the spotlight, so while they may continue to donate to these charities privately, the organizations would not receive as much recognition, since the monarchy brings so much media attention with everything that it does (Blond).
