Give money to Oxfam or Medecins sans Frontieres to help make poverty history, but add 61p to your donation.

Then write to the Government, and tell them that your personal annual contribution to Royal Family finances has been reallocated.

If enough of us do it, who knows what might happen? (The answer is: nothing will happen, of course. But I can dream, can't I?)

I think we're all grown up enough now to contemplate life without a monarchy, don't you?