Check out this article from LA Times:
On a recent trip to Britain, what struck me most about that country's relationship with its sovereign wasn't the usual commercial tributes — the cheap china stamped with the queen's likeness, the tabloid stories about the royal family and such rot — but the genuine devotion modern Britons seem to have for Elizabeth II. And judging by Americans' fascination with events such as the recent royal wedding and the queen's Diamond Jubilee celebration (a two-hour special on the jubilee hosted by Katie Couric on ABC attracted 6.4 million viewers and beat everything in its time slot except the NBA playoffs), it's a feeling common on this side of the Atlantic as well. Which is a little ironic given that this nation sparked a bloody war against Britain by declaring eternal independence from such monarchs.
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