After seeing what happened to royalty in the french revolution, it makes sense that they would be on the side that has the most guns.
The French Revolution was the first humanist/socialist (based solely on the Enlightenment without the Reformation) revolution that ultimately devolved into Napoleon. The aristocracy has taken a beating from the far left ever since, especially with the Russian Revolution. Their answer to Marxism was Fascism after the Russian Revolution, but is now environmentalism. There are many conservatives who continue to misunderstand the environmental movement as the new red. They are not.
I didn't really comprehend Royals’ and ‘upper’ bourgeois complicity (or at least accommodation) with Fascism, until I read “Arms of Krupp”.
And you are right....these people, desperate to keep and consolidate their gains to that point, conned everyone to go along with this pseudo populist cause. They lied and said that Fascism would save them all. It saved NO ONE and was ruinous to ALL.
It's an ugly little fact about humanity that SOME people like having decisions made FOR them, and have an absolute penchant for subservience.. a positive, crying NEED to be used and exploited. THIS is why America (until recently) has really been the ‘shinning city on the hill’, where Monarchy and the rigid class structure accompanying it was rejected as a demeaning system for free men.