OH dear. I must be becoming either cynical or psychic.

When the Paradise Papers revealed that members of the Windsor clan had their fingers in the offshore tax haven honey pot I felt it was inevitable that the palace spin department would leap into action. As ever I was sure the media would be their willing lapdog.

Sure enough on Monday we have a front-page picture of the Queen and Prince Philip at the Remembrance Day parade in London but with a simpering headline above it ("The Queen's look of love", The Herald, November 13). However, today (November 15) it reached a whole new level. You filled a full page with non-news about various royals surrounding photos and an article about the Windsors' marriage which would have been more fitting in a Barbra Cartland paperback ("The affection and tolerance at the heart of a union lasting 70 years", The Herald, November 15). Perhaps you, like the rest of the media, were under a three-line whip to boost the monarchy's image.

Surely it is time that we as a mature nation asked some hard questions of the system of monarchy and made a conscious decision to abandon this feudal, self-serving institution.

David Stubley,

22 Templeton Crescent, Prestwick.