Re: Royal Birth

So the Royal Baby's born.  Yipee, I guess.  That Americans, who so long ago severed any and all ties with the UK, are still infatuated with the British Monarchy, is of course nothing new.  What I would like to focus more on is the far more bizarre fact that the English still are!  Because near as I can tell from all my years studying English Literature (and therefore English History), the English have, for centuries, been trying to kill their Monarchs.  That the British Monarchy is one of the few surviving left on Earth is I consider one of the supremest ironies of history.  Consider:

• 1215: You know it's bad when your own nobles are trying to kill you.  King John of England is forced to sign the Magna Carta, limiting his powers, to not only keep his kingdom but his head.
• 1381: Geoffrey Chaucer began writing his Canterbury Tales a mere 6 years after the Peasant Revolt, when a large, angry Peasant army marched on London itself, beheaded the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord Chancellor, and nearly killed Henry II himself.
• 1455-1485: England is torn apart in the War of the Roses, as the competing claims of the Houses of York and Lancaster lead to a veritable slaughter of rival kings.  (This bloody civil war is later commemorated by Shakespeare's history plays).
• 1606: Guy Fawkes attempts what every Englishman has dreamed of doing but never had the guts to do--blow up Parliament.  The assassination of James I was also on the docket that day.
• 1649: Parliament succeeds where Guy Fawkes failed, and beheads Charles I--the King himself!--for high treason.  England experiments with a king-less Republic for the next decade.  The 1660 Restoration of the Monarchy was so tragic for many Englishman, that it drove John Milton to write Paradise Lost.
• 1776: The American Revolution makes a lot more sense when you consider it as a bunch of Englishmen once again trying to depose of their Monarch.
• 1977: British Punk band The Sex Pistols release the single "God Save the Queen," calling hers "A fascist regime" and "She ain't no human being!"  These sentiments are par for the course for '80s British Punk and Pop bands.
• 2011: Prince Charle's motorcade takes a wrong turn during the London Riots, and is promptly surrounded by angry rioters shaking and beating the bullet-proof vehicle with cries of, "Off with his head!"

So really, the question for me isn't why the Royal Birth is still such a delight for Americans (we have an incurable weakness for novelty, after all), but why it's so for the English!