[quote=Pasta Sentient]
Not sure how all the politics will work out, but considering that all these people are now getting equal representation shouldn't they be happy?
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Love for the monarchy has waned in Britain, but still exists in the modern day. Undo 150 years of waning, and you have how the British felt about the monarchy.

Not to mention all of the references to the United States that Edward made. From war to an attempt to emulate their style of government in an instant?