Wow, everyone on MSNBC is

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21. Another icon of history is gone.

In the case of the Queen, I just admire her longevity and history especially post Henry VIII. The history is fascinating to me because if you look their political history you can clearly see the roots of our American government.

Why to people fawn over the royals? We tend to admire celebrity because they illustrate the things we’ve been taught to covet, however subconsciously. We all have dreams of wealth and fame and happiness and style and social influence and so on, which starts early with fairy tales and the way we raise our kids. Maybe it plays into our deep-seated attraction to heroism. I think that stays with us, to some extent, through our lives. Royals and other people, like Hollywood figures and Kardashian types, keep that phenomenon alive.