Dear Your Gracious Majesty:

Do you REALLY want to resume control over this bunch of silly expatriates? It would involve settling petty election squabbles, monitoring Texans, Southern California, and bible-belt farmers.....AND figuring out what to do with the rabid American football fans! Not to mention the BBC trying to assume control over the wasteland of US television. I suggest you consider yourself lucky to have gotten rid of us when you did.