Sir: If, as you suggest (leading article, 18 July), the Prince of Wales has formed a witan to advise him, it would also perhaps be appropriate to return to an elective monarchy, which was another salient feature of the Anglo-Saxon system. It was the Norman immigrants who imported their alien system of male primogeniture.
WILLIAM TERRELL
London SW1
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