We are seeing it as citizens in a constitutional republic. She a subject in a monarchy. She probably felt great shame to be a party to the pranking of a royal highness. Here, we were raised with all men are created equal; there, she was likely raised to adore the royalty.
As a different example, look at how the people of Thailand are devoted to their beloved king. If this prank had happened there, I could see the same thing happening.
-PJ
Please. The average Brit doesn’t bow and scrape to royalty. A couple of years ago, some shock jock radio station asked a caller (a soldier) whether he would shag the queen, he replied ‘yes, but only if she wore the crown’.
Even in George III’s time cartoonists like James Gilray and the Cruikshanks were crudely portraying the Royals as fat, oafish buffoons and using scatalogical humour to back their point up.
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