In terms of overwhelming media coverage think of them as the Brit version of the Kardashians (maybe from a few years back no idea how often the Kardashians are in the news these days).
Other than that I think we probably never greatly reduced the role of our monarchy at the end of ww1, the way much of the rest of Europe did, because at that point we were still global reserve currency and similar to Americans today - things seemed to be going relatively well and we’d just ‘won’ ww1 so why change it? Our coal production peaked around 1921 (iirc), after that the £ began its decline before being bankrupted by ww2. We did alright with a somewhat socialist society until the late 70s, from which point neo-liberalism took over and we have raced rightwards, like the US, and the monarchy needs to go but is the least of our problems.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Oxymoron.
lobut@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
As an English “whose-a-ma-whats-it”, I feel like a lot of us don’t care much for the monarchy as well. I don’t speak for all obviously. Many of my friends need to keep up with Royal Family drama for some reason.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
You have my sympathies. For being one of those uncivilized barbarians, the monarchy thing, and the king worshipping friend group. Id offer you a civilizing influence, but i am unfortunately a terrible shot.
B1naryB0t@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
And lots of them are just morons on Oxy
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
No that’s americans.