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The disproportionate gain is mostly in currency that evolution doesn't care about anyway. You do get some reproductive advantages from being a monarch but nothing remotely like in proportion to the wealth and power.
In reproductive terms you would be better off being the playboy second son of one of the wealthier minor nobility. Lower risk with a lot more time and attention to devote to promiscuity rather than those pesky things like maintaining power, and public image.
I agree with your main point, but don't ignore the evolutionary value of your offsprings' inherited status and how that caches out in terms of their reproductive success.