the absence of Americans goes all the way back to American independence.
My family is descended from William Bradford (of the Mayflower), so we’ve been absent a little longer than that, even.
I will continue the family tradition.
Mine goes back at least to the 9th Century in the southwest of England and I have Quaker ancestors who were early American settlers.
I went to the same school as some of my ancestors did... in the seventeenth century!
The constitutional monarchy is as foundational to British moral continuity as the Constitution of the USA is (or should be).
Governments may come and go, fads may come and go, religions may fracture even... but principles that inspire unity need constancy.
This is the only area where I prefer a ceremonial constitutional monarchy to republicanism. Executive presidencies divide countries on political lines. Our type of monarchy reduces the argument to a fairly genial philosophical debate over which option sucks the least.