Monarchies in Europe go back centuries. Maintaining them is conservative. Oliver Cromwell was not a conservative. The “Republicans” and Bolsheviks in Spain and Russia were not conservatives. The Founders were not even anti-Monarchy, they wanted their rights as Englishmen to be respected. We didn’t even know what form of gov’t the new nation would take, Washington was offered his own Kingship.
Republicans 1860-1878 not conservative either especially the ardent abolitionists
FWIW, I agree with you about the contexts of American Conservatism vs that of Europe.
And it is what I was thinking earlier when I said I wanted to hear your thoughts. So thank you.