The Royal America Episode

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The soap opera of Meghan and Harry, the deploying of Prince Philip in America's culture wars: why does the British royal family exert so strong an appeal in republican America? This is not a new phenomenon. Queen Victoria's son, later Edward VII, toured America on the eve of the Civil War and was greeted with adulation. What's going on? Adam talks to Arianne Chernock and Frank Prochaska to find out.

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