For somebody with no power, she does a hell of a job monopolizing a lot of the British wealth and influencing British thinking.
Kim Kardashian is unaccountably rich and clogs a good many minds over here, but no one confuses her for the president.
I think the royals live off their own income by now, rather than taxez, though of course it is based on their having had the swords back when. She gas a certain power from her wealth and fame, but no political power. Only “sovereignty,” like with “we the people” over here. You are one of the people. Try asserting your will in politics. You’ll get as far as her, which is nowhere.