"When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing."

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Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum; the reality is that the British monarchy, for good or ill, is a modern political institution - perhaps the first modern political institution.

— Adam Gopnik