Burger kings

Sir: It’s a truth universally acknowledged that no two countries with Macca’s outlets have ever declared war on each other whereas no two constitutional monarchies have not fought each other – hence most monarchies have Macca’s these days.

Therefore, Michael Davis is goose-of-the-week for his tendentious plan to install monarchs in the likes of Afghanistan and Iraq (‘Forget the republic, bring back the monarchy’, 9 April).