In britain, all is not as it seems, nor ever has been. As they viewed the preparations for the royal wedding, with all its pomp and circumstance, the non-British seemed to willingly buy into the idea that the monarchy-and popular reverence for it-has been a fixed point in the British firmament for centuries, a source of stability however the nation's fortunes may have ebbed and flowed. Nothing could be further from the truth. The monarchy does not symbolize some deep sense of tradition; on the contrary, it has long been a contested element of what it means to be British.
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