Fun bit I learned from the skeptics guide to American history: during the lead up to the American revolution king George was actually incredibly popular. Really America owes it's independence and total separation to the fact that it was largely a proxy war between France and Britain as retribution for the French and Indian war.
Point being: Americans have always been simps for the royals.
Even the Boston radical Joseph Warren, who would die just a few months later at Bunker Hill, maintained that "an independence on Great Britain is not our aim. No, our wish is, that Britain and the Colonies may like oak and ivy grow and increase in strength together." As late as November 1775 Thomas Jefferson wrote that "there is not in the British Empire a man who more cordially loves a union with Great Britain than I do." And George Washington continued to toast George III at dinners with his officers"
Fun bit I learned from the skeptics guide to American history: during the lead up to the American revolution king George was actually incredibly popular. Really America owes it's independence and total separation to the fact that it was largely a proxy war between France and Britain as retribution for the French and Indian war.
Point being: Americans have always been simps for the royals.
ruling class is gonna ruling class, you know?
From Kaye's book on Paine