UK still has the attitude that social classes are a legitimate and real thing. That there exist people to rule or be ruled. Similar attitudes manifest in other

UK still has the attitude that social classes are a legitimate and real thing. That there exist people to rule or be ruled. Similar attitudes manifest in other western nations but none so normalized that huge sums of taxpayer money funds the lavish lifestyle of a specific family's bloodline, so explicit that living rulers (not leaders, self identified rulers) are placed on every instrument of currency. Their de jure power may be ceremonial but the cultural effect is very real, even if subconscious. Such an attitude enables practices that better attitudes would see as abhorrent.