I feel exactly the same Backwoodsman. I've been a strong supporter of the Royal family and taken a great interest and pleasure in their ceremonies and events all my life. But now I can see that I've changed, and would frankly like to see the back of 'em!

I don't say the Queen hasn't performed her role nobly and well over the decades (and I remember my mother telling me King George had died, and watching the Coronation on a neighbour's tiny TV) I just feel they're an anachronism, they're pompous, and their attitude of superiority doesn't sit well with me any more.

I'd never in a million years curtsy to any of them, why would I?
I think I've said on here before that I curtsy to my aged mother-in-law because it's traditional, and also because I respect her enormously for bearing nine children in abject poverty and suffering.

I asked my husband if there has been any mention of the Royal Wedding at the school where he works, and he says not a sausage. Nothing on the walls and no allusion to it among the Staff.

Ah well, times change I suppose, and I'm not the same person I was years ago.