The King and Queen of the Netherlands are visiting my neighbor city

[NotAMouse]

They'll be thirty miles from me next week, visiting some influential Dutch-American families (read: rich people). Cool stuff. We Americans sure love royalty, considering how much we hated them back in the 1700s.

[Vilageidiotx]

Because in the end our way won and the noble monarchies of Europe are now just local tabloid fodder.

[KnightShade]

Because in the end our way won and the noble monarchies of Europe are now just local tabloid fodder.

@Vilageidiotx

Tbh, reinventing themselves as tabloid fodder might be maintaining their power in 'Britain.' That and 'Britishness.'

[stark]

We Americans sure love royalty.

@Taaj

You should have seen the lines when Prince William and Kate visited NYC this winter. People queued up around the block. Traffic literally halted.

That shit was a royal mess.