We are a servile lot willing to go on all fours for her royal Maj, LBJ, JFK, George W Bush et al. It has to be our convict beginnings. I imagine the poor dear convicts, when they got to be a little bit trusted in the penal hell they probably did some work for their colonial masters and the squatocracy in their vast acres and huge homesteads. The plebs would have committed murder to live like their overlords. But it wouldn’t have done to have said so.
Clustered around the major towns the new urban-dwelling suburbanites, cowed by the vast hinterland felt a special need to cling together. And in order to maintain this acceptance into the social levels of each strata it was vital to like/dislike whatever the majority believed. Thus did Oz in one rapid jump go from felon to fawning upon one’s betters.
Another way to become accepted as being one of the boys, was to worship royalty.
Only a nation of grovelers would willingly wish to remain an heredity monarchy. In this the year two thousand and ten.
No wonder so many of our great thinkers go to live overseas. Anything to escape the tyranny of mediocrity.