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Now I get why this is big news in the UK and UK affiliates. The whole "Continuing the royal bloodline, God save the Queen" scene is really big there. I am just confuzzled as to why in the heck it is big new over here? It seems to me that every time a member of the Royals does anything, it is suddenly big time news here in the US. If Prince Charles take a royal dump in the royal potty, the American News Service announces it. It is like all of America is the creepy stalker guy in a trench coat that you see in old films.
Now last I recommeber, we fought a couple of wars a few years back in order to free ourselves (Well okay in the War of 1812 it was to stay free-ish) from the yoke of Royal Tyranny. We fought and bled to be free to completely no give a flying flick about what is happening in the UK. We dumped tea, rode horses overnight and Gods only know what else to say, "Great Britain who?"
So why have Americans been obsessed with UK and Royalty ever since? Why do we focus on the tiniest bit of data coming out of the Royal Palace? In no way does who Price Charles is boffing at this moment effect us in anyway. A royal baby has about as much impact on us as a cow farting in Canada. So why, Dear Magog Why do we search the interwebs and newpapers (Yes they still print those) in hopes of learning what the name of the latest royal bundle is?
Like I said, I have pondered this many times in the past. It confuzzles me that a country that is supposedly rabidly independent focusses so much on the royalty of other countries. I mean, we did kind of fight a war to get away from that. I think the answer lies in the old "Shoulda, woulda. coulda" category.
200+ years ago, the US got more than a little steamed over certain issues and basically threw the mother of temper tantrums over it. By doing so, we did what no other colony had ever done before by winning with force our independence from the Mother Realm. This was an amazing feat.
However, in the newly formed US, the vast majority of the citizens were either ex-citizens of the UK or the children of descendants of Citizens. So this early Americans still had close ties to Great Britain. They were still fascinated by what the Royal Family was doing and who they were doing it to. As time went on, that fascination became ingrained into our mindset. Even today, we still focus on all of the Royal News.
People look at the grand pomp and circumstance of the Royal Life and a part of them wonders what it might be like to be a part of that culture. They might ponder just how close we came to still being a part of the UK even today. (Historically speaking, there were several very strong diplomatic efforts at the beginning of the war that could have settled the differences without all out warfare so it might have been possible for the Colonies to remain with GB.)
Since we made the choice to split and form a country without the grandeur of Royalty, we are left to try and enjoy that excitement from afar. Still, the little bugger is kind of cute in a pink, wrinkled sort of way.
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