But Jim, Fred, et al, none of you has really answered my point, which I think I have demonstrated many instances to support:~ that the vast majority of the folk for the vast majority of the time actually liked being ruled by a monarch, whom they were prepared to bless and respect, whom they thought of as personifying a deeply held patriotic feeling they shared, and whom they rejoiced and felt honoured in serving ~~ "I've done my duty, served my King, and now I bless my fate". I know this flies in the face of much that you lot hold dear in your turn; but I don't think all your urgings of coercion and conditioning and legislative terrorising are going to make this, imo, incontrovertible fact go away.

~M~