When speaking of royalty why is England always referred too? What about African royalty?

Question

When speaking of royalty why is England always referred too? What about African royalty?

Answer 1

Who gives a toss? The whole idea of monarchy is (like religion) an insult to humanity. The premise is that they were put on earth to rule over us, by god. I can accept neither.

It could be that the the English monarchy is so obscenely wealthy. Not many African counties are that stupid.

Answer 2

Well, probably because England is where many of the first settlers came from to the US ,to get out from under their rules  and that is generally the ones that are refered to...

Answer 3

Quite simply the British royals are the most well known in many countries.  But in Spain if you referred to the Royal Family, I'm quite sure people would be thinking of the Royal Family of Spain.

Who you think of when hearing the "Royal Family" is more regional.

best of luck to you!

Answer 4

Because English royalty are much more visible and traditionally have been much more powerful on a global scale.  They used to own half the globe!

Answer 5

Because the English monarchy is a proper one. Not like those fly by night African ones.

Answer 6

The majority of America is of European heritage and England is the only western Euro nation that still has royalty.

Secondly, Africa hasn't ruled Europe in over 2000 years. They haven't had a great royal family in a very long time. Eruope was a lot more recent. And although it isn't said, the modern world still sees African society as uncivilized

Answer 7

African royalty is a joke

Africans have never been a significant achiever in anything and consequently powerless

also royalty in Africa is a very small tinpot affair except Ethiopia and Egypt . everything else is very very minor, even the Zulu king only had a few hundred thousand men.

Answer 8

Their are other ountries that have royalty ....which are not spoken of very often either like Holland either so it's not a segregated group

But probably due to the power Britain once had ( look at all the commonwealth countries) and how many nations including african countries are in the common wealth list )

Answer 9

There are many other monarchies in the world,mainly they keep a low profile and seem to be well liked by the citizens there,unlike the fornicating Prince Charles,a person of low or non existing morals but who expects everyone to call him sir and treat with respect.He seems to be totaly oblivious to the fact that respect is earned and not just doled out like the millions of pounds that is given to the queen and her family every year.

Answer 10

I think it may be because this is an English-speaking site, so most users are native English speakers, and in the English-speaking world, there is only one royal family. I think if you were on a Spanish-speaking web site, people would tend to refer to the Spanish royal family. Just a guess. I could be wrong.

Answer 11

I know African Royalty exists. But, the English rose to become the most powerful empire on the face of the earth...and people always associate England with the royals. Africa was never a world power.

Most people I know don't think of Africa and royalty together. Look at popular media...those charity commercials with the starving people covered in flies...civil wars and corrupt strongmen in every corner...aids/ ebola/ Darfur/ Somalia/ the Delta region of Nigeria/ Robert "Mismanaging" Mugabe of Zimbabwe/ Kenya's political strife.

What we see is hardly regal. Is it any wonder?

Where are the African royals indeed.

Answer 12

really insightful question! I'd never thought of that, but from my past experiences and studies, I can think of 2 possible answers (psychological and historical):

1. Western media is preoccupied with the negative aspects of African society.

I think it has something to do with our (deeply rooted psychological) fascination with, but desire to be separated from loss and hurt. The fear we carry towards death, loss etc. is translated into fascination with death, loss etc. but at the same time as we are fascinated, we want to see that ‘that kind of thing couldn’t happen to me,’ so by dwelling on the death, destruction, disease, etc. in Africa, we are able to dote on it while separating it from ourselves in a sense.

Focusing in on the good coming out of Africa, or the sides of African society that make them more understandable and human to us would make Western civilizations see that we’re really not that different, and our psyches resist anything that tells us that.

2. Many European invaders during the ‘Scramble for Africa’ viewed African nations as ‘blank slates’ when they went in and conquered. Europeans often acted as though Africans were children, without laws, government, tradition… and they were simply waiting for their European saviors to come show them how to live.. this was obviously not true (it was the European blindness to seeing the laws and customs that were different than their own) but still today, the tradition of ignoring African life and culture remains. I can’t say exactly how, but possibly it stems from the imperialist legacy.

Answer 13

English speaker mindset tends to suggest so... especially as monarchy is thankfully almost outdated.

Answer 14

England's royals are the most noted and popular.But other royals can be tracked through http://www.theroyalforums.com

Answer 15

People mostly think of England. There are many other countries with royalty, but they must be better behaved.

Answer 16

I believe its because England's royalty is considered more "grand", where as since Africa isalmost more rural in a way its not considered as royal in either sense of the word