True royalty has genetic superiority over the population. Without a guillotine of death preventing superior intelligence and skills from rising to power, this would happen naturally. Meritocracy is prevented due to thieves being in charge.
The royalty in England is a good example. Prince William, for example, is genetically superior to pretty much everyone in England. He has innate intelligence and skills that are superior. Some has been dumbed down over the generations, with deliberateness, however Prince William can learn to fly military aircraft faster and more easily than just about anyone else. He has, in fact, proven that.
In my case, I have some of those genetics. Some in the military decided to test me from birth. Some wanted to create a super-soldier, others wanted to use me for training.
If you have heard of the MK-ultra experiments. Some of that is used to gain control over the superior genetic subjects. Frankly some in power and deathly afraid of the subjects due to their superior abilities. So they systematically destroy their psychology to gain control over them.
The above was done to me. Part of the reason I was not allowed to succeed financially and socially in the United States was because they could not get a psychological leverage point over me to control me. Knee-jerk assassins come to mind. They trained me to be one, but I do not respond to their triggers except to punch a wall or something.