One of the nice debts of gratitude we owe our founding fathers is the divorce they effected from British "royalty" and the class stratifications of British society.
The word "republican" in American usage, as in 'republican form of government,' 'republican party,' etc., means anti-monarchy.
The more anti-monarchy you were in 1776 the more pro-American you were. When Federalists such as John Adams and Alexander Hamilton showed signs of favoring some of the titles and trappings of monarchy, they were roundly ridiculed by Thomas Jefferson's party called the "Democratic-Republicans," or 'Republicans,' for short. Today's Democratic party traces its roots back to Jefferson and his party. The word 'Republican' in Jefferson's party is not to be confused with today's GOP, which grew out of the breakup of the Whig party over issues of slavery. Lincoln had been a Whig and later Republican, which was anti-slavery. Only in the decades following the Civil War, when railroad and other investors on the rapidly burgeoning Wall Street waxed fat did the GOP become the party of the plutocrat, among others.
It is startling to the American eye to see the signs of the royalty disease which permeates British society today, as shown in the breakup of the romance of Diana's kid, William and Kate Middleton, who is characterized as a commoner, especially her mother, a former airline stewardess. The royals are very conscious of their superior status, and so are the non-royals, of some of them, who wish to hob-nob with them, which seems to be a tricky thing to do, as you're still a commoner, as you'll soon be reminded if you don't behave yourself with proper subservience.
The article below illustrates nicely several examples of a member of the upper caste putting in place a member of a lower caste, as in royalty to commoner and gentleman to man-of-trade. Do we do anything like that here in the States? Veteran players in football and baseball use the term 'rookie' for beginners and play pranks on them until they become veterans themselves, I suppose, the difference being that the rookie can work his way up. In Britain among the castes, this is not allowed to happen.
That's the way they are. This is the way we are. The difference is constitutional, describing how we are actually constituted. When put into law, we call it constitutional law. A set of attitudes legally enforced.
I suppose we should all thank the British newspaper for teaching us how to bow and scrape before royalty, don't you?
I wonder whether the Noo Yawk Daily News, for example, runs columns advising British royalty how to behave when deigning to condescend to appear amongst the former colonists on this side of the pond.
What's that? You're not familiar with 'twee'?
Pity.
I wonder how one properly says, "Kiss my ass," to royalty.
Maybe you bow first.