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JamesJM
with or without the monarchy?

No what I was referring to was specifically the moneys that come in directly associated with the monarchy. It's a widely believed thing among the Brits that Americans are just crown crazy enough that that is a primary motivation for what they do and how they spend money over there. There's even official info about that.

Hence my friend's joke. Which you are kind of missing by instead pursuing some kind of literal economic thing (which is nonetheless real, see below).

The point of posting that joke, on my part, is to maky light of American fascination with the crown.

To me, to the degree I have Canadian republican sympathies, the English crown is actually sort of a nuisance, and not just this quaint source of fascination. So whenever American friends of mine go crown crazy in conversation with this or that genuinely dull gossip, I think, but we're trying to get rid of them, you DID get rid of them and so to you they have no real connection but yet you're still all interested for some (to me) forsaken reason.

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. [www.theatlantic.com]

The British tourism agency has reported that the royal family generates close to 500 million pounds, or about $767 million, every year in tourism revenue, drawing visitors to historic royal sites like the Tower of London, Windsor Castle, and Buckingham Palace.