In terms of overwhelming media coverage think of them as the Brit version of the Kardashians (maybe from a few years back no idea how often the Kardashians are in the news these days).
Other than that I think we probably never greatly reduced the role of our monarchy at the end of ww1, the way much of the rest of Europe did, because at that point we were still global reserve currency and similar to Americans in later decades up to more recently - things seemed to be going relatively well and we’d just ‘won’ ww1 so why change it? Our coal production peaked around 1921 (iirc), after that the £ began its decline before the British empire was bankrupted by ww2, Bretton Woods happened and the US took over as global erserve currency. We did alright with a somewhat socialist society until the late 70s, from which point neo-liberalism took over and we have raced rightwards, like the US, and the monarchy needs to go but is the least of our problems.
We are wistful for the days when our biggest problem was getting rid of kings and queens. Our first order of business is getting rid of bigots and racists. Then we can focus on alleviating the stranglehold of business, which will clear the path for dealing with climate change and investing in our health and education.
In terms of overwhelming media coverage think of them as the Brit version of the Kardashians (maybe from a few years back no idea how often the Kardashians are in the news these days).
Other than that I think we probably never greatly reduced the role of our monarchy at the end of ww1, the way much of the rest of Europe did, because at that point we were still global reserve currency and similar to Americans in later decades up to more recently - things seemed to be going relatively well and we’d just ‘won’ ww1 so why change it? Our coal production peaked around 1921 (iirc), after that the £ began its decline before the British empire was bankrupted by ww2, Bretton Woods happened and the US took over as global erserve currency. We did alright with a somewhat socialist society until the late 70s, from which point neo-liberalism took over and we have raced rightwards, like the US, and the monarchy needs to go but is the least of our problems.
We are wistful for the days when our biggest problem was getting rid of kings and queens. Our first order of business is getting rid of bigots and racists. Then we can focus on alleviating the stranglehold of business, which will clear the path for dealing with climate change and investing in our health and education.