There no real threat to The Monarchy, is there?

It goes without saying, supposedly, that socialism is opposed to monarchy in principle. In practice, however, British Labour leaders have been famous for their love of the reigning monarch, while it is a cliche that French socialists suffer from Napoleonic visions of the importance of la France and to observe that Lenin and Stalin reproduced Tsarist absolutism would barely warrant a prize for received ideas. Despite such example s, there is no general overview of the relationship between socialism and hereditary power in Europe.