Not Everyone In The UK Loves The Queen

I'm probably going to get down voted for this but what the hell.

Not everyone in the UK loves the queen. Obviously I'm not speaking from a majority stand point but I'd like to make my point of view known to the rest of the world that, at large, I've seen thinks the opposite. Now I'm not well read on UK economics in this area and I'm not ready to make the argument of cost vs worth against the queen but rather take it from a more gut-feeling point of view (for lack of a better term.)

This comes most recently from the picture of the queen meeting with some of the firefighters involved in the recent disaster in London and most of the comments read among the theme of "you're so lucky to have a queen!" while any anti-queen (or monarchy in general) comments were buried in down votes so fast they don't get a real chance to give any reason. For me it's to do with the over all image of the UK, and knowing that there's millions in need of food banks and the NHS is stretched to it's limit, I just can't get behind the idea of the country having a figurehead living in a literal palace with insane amounts of wealth, only being there in the first place because she was born to the right parents. One example that pisses me off is the somewhat recent renovations to buckingham palace, costing about £360 million. Seeing that kind of money being thrown around to upkeep this position while passing an increasing amount of people begging on the streets just doesn't feel right.

It's also a question of the undemocratic nature of a monarchy. Now I know the queen doesn't have a massive amount of power but to me any amount of power handed to a person in this way is an offense to democracy. The UK just went through an intense election and at the end of it all, the elected leader has to go to the queen to check if it's ok to form a government.

Most of this is just a ramble, there's alot I'm missing out and I'm not going to bother checking over what I've written mainly because I'm almost certain this is going to be downvoted but I just wanted to get my voice out there however small - some people resent the idea of a monarchy.