Speak for yourself. This American would be quite happy to bow to Prince Felipe or any other European royal if I had the opportunity. One can acknowledge the equality of human souls without insisting that people should have equal status in this life. Equality is a dangerous notion which too often has only led to violence, because people are naturally unequal. Inequality cannot be stamped out, no matter how much neo-Jacobins might like it to be, so one might as well acknowlege it with titles as the Europeans do (or did). I for one believe that a hierarchical society is far more natural (and conducive to cultural achievement) than either an egalitarian or meritocratic one.
(I realize that you are not an egalitarian in the same sense that Leftists are; however, I believe that the goals of egalitarianism and meritocracy have the same misguided root and are closer to each other than their adherents would like to think.)