Quite. Why do so many on here find it so difficult to grasp the patent fact that for the greatest part of out history - up to, say, some time after the 1st World War - the vast majority of the people have been perfectly content to live sunder a monarchy, finding in the institution a real sense of security? Never mind this vain search for antimonarchist folk songs; let's just see some acknowledgment by Fred & his lot of the unarguable fact that widespread songs like all those Whitsun & Easter hymns ended as a matter of course with a loyal "God Bless our King and Queen and all the royal folk" stanza: listen again to the Waddon Whitsuntide Hymn on the Young Tradition's first record, say.

People just liked having a royal family to focus their feelings of patriotic security on. It is simply idle to deny it. So...

Live with it!

~M~