Royalism has very little to do with most of English culture, and nothing to do with folk music. Obviously various political clashes in the past have given rise to songs, in some cases royalist or anti-royalist if that's what the battle happened to be about, but that's no different from any other country. We have more songs about Nelson and Napoleon than we do about kings and queens.

The reason why the English don't have a strong sense of national identity is because we have never been under threat from an oppressive regime. There's nothing quite like that to make you cling on to your culture and strive to preserve it.

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