Something semi-related.
Happened to see the start of Ingmar Bergman's "The Seventh Seal"
The first scene includes Mary, dressed like a queen, healping the baby Jesus learn to walk across a meadow.
Bergman was a Lutheran, had no interest in things Catholic whatsoever, by his own explicit admission. So how is it that in out of the way Sweden, in 1957, the imagery of Mary as a Holy Queen was a part of protestant thought, but does not seem to be so today?
What happened?
Good question. If we only had the answer.