{"id":4154,"date":"2018-11-16T11:20:58","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T16:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalhistorian.com\/?p=4154"},"modified":"2018-11-16T11:20:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T16:20:58","slug":"good-housekeeping-interview-why-are-we-so-obsessed-with-the-royal-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.royalhistorian.com\/good-housekeeping-interview-why-are-we-so-obsessed-with-the-royal-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Housekeeping Interview: Why are we so obsessed with the royal family?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2216\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalhistorian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/800px-Royal_family_on_the_balcony.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2216\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2216\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalhistorian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/800px-Royal_family_on_the_balcony-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.royalhistorian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/800px-Royal_family_on_the_balcony-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.royalhistorian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/800px-Royal_family_on_the_balcony-624x415.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.royalhistorian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/800px-Royal_family_on_the_balcony.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Royal Family on the Buckingham Palace balcony after the 2012 Trooping the Colour Parade<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I discussed the current popularity of the royal family with Good Housekeeping in the UK. Here is an excerpt from the interview:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMembers of the royal family are certainly conscious of how they are perceived. The Queen reputedly once said \u2018I have to be seen to be believed\u2019 and remaining in the public eye through tours, charitable patronages and presence on major occasions in the life of the nation is certainly key to the monarchy&#8217;s popularity,\u201d said Dr Carolyn Harris, historian and author of\u00a0<em><a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Raising-Royalty-Years-Royal-Parenting\/dp\/1459735692?tag=goodhousekeeping.co.uk-21&amp;ascsubtag=[artid|1925.a.25163969[src|[ch|\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Raising-Royalty-Years-Royal-Parenting\/dp\/1459735692\">Raising Royalty: 1000 Years of Royal Parenting<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Click here to read\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodhousekeeping.com\/uk\/lifestyle\/a25163969\/royal-family-popularity-reason\/\">Why are we so obsessed with the royal family?<\/a> in Good Housekeeping UK<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I discussed the current popularity of the royal family with Good Housekeeping in the UK. Here is an excerpt from the interview: \u201cMembers of the royal family are certainly conscious of how they are perceived. The Queen reputedly once said \u2018I have to be seen to be believed\u2019 and remaining in the public eye through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhistorian.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhistorian.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhistorian.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhistorian.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhistorian.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhistorian.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhistorian.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhistorian.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhistorian.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}