Sounding off Royally

Doug Mataconis isn't happy that some woman called "Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor-Mountbatten will be visiting the free and independent United States of America". Apparently, visits from certain foreign heads of state (like the Queen of Canada) are more irritating than others:

Okay, let’s get this straight people.

We won the Revolutionary War.

We owe no alliegience to the British Throne.

When it comes to the British Royal Family (to the exent you can call the Buckingham Place rendition of “Married With Children” a family) we owe them nothing.

No respect.

Nothing.

Okay, to be fair, Doug is actually objecting to the somewhat ridiculous lengths to which some Americans go to honour royalty. Respect for a visiting monarch is fine, but it's perhaps going too far to treat them like Hollywood actors . . . (tongue very firmly in cheek).