Watch The Throne: America & Royalty

BackStory

History, Education

4.5 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Queen Elizabeth celebrates her 90th birthday this June and royal watchers around the globe will join the festivities. Despite the Founding Fathers rejecting the British monarchy, Americans have always been fascinated by royalty. For this episode of BackStory, the History Guys will consider what happened when Napoleon’s little brother married an American teenager, whether Americans had more or less freedom after independence from Great Britain, and why Americans sometimes try to emulate royal families.

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0:00.0	This is backstory. I'm Peter Onuf.
0:03.0	The English Earth throwing her majesty, the Queen,
0:06.0	a lavish 90th birthday party this week.
0:08.0	But the Brits aren't the only ones watching,
0:11.0	as one Fox Business host points out,
0:13.0	that birthday event is so big in America.
0:17.0	I mean, it headlines virtually every news broadcast in America today.
0:21.0	Despite all the media coverage,
0:23.0	Americans have had a rocky relationship with a royalty.
0:26.0	Remember that revolution?
0:28.0	Or the time members of Congress panicked after a Baltimore teenager
0:33.0	married Napoleon's brother?
0:35.0	Our eyes will be introduced to gorgeous scenes of royalty.
0:39.0	And soon Americans will become seduced and corrupted.
0:43.0	After World War II, American leaders brought the Japanese Emperor back down to Earth.
0:48.0	The rings for him to go to Disneyland,
0:50.0	there was a very famous photograph,
0:52.0	which showed him standing next to Mickey Mouse.
0:56.0	America's Royal Delenze today on backstory.
1:00.0	Major funding for backstory is provided by the ShiaCon Foundation,
1:04.0	the National Endowment for the Humanities,
1:06.0	the Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation,
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