Bullied into flying a flag at half-mast? If that was some huge trauma then that says it all. They must have been as detached as the Romanovs.
The media would done as privately briefed, as they usually do, but couldn't ignore the people on the streets. Sometimes you just can't ignore the people! Unless you're the Windsors that is.
So, the flying of the flag at half-mast was a trivial matter, then - much as Corbyn not singing the NA, but blown out of all proportion by the media who spurred on the baying mob, or was it vice versa? Either way it would not have been an issue for national discussion if the media hadn't picked it up and run with it. Methinks it is you in denial here Lyall, or expressing some double standards...
Yes the Monarchy IS detached, but that's hardly surprising, it's how they are, like it or loathe it. We know you loathe it and would rather President Prescott be greeting heads of state in his Jaguar, but most people wouldn't!