{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/62cda17f1c07740014d65e4f/62cda184711d670012fc511f?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Royal America Episode","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/62cda17f1c07740014d65e4f/1682265963367-2378237d4915686dcf9308bb2daae918.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>The soap opera of Meghan and Harry, the deploying of Prince Philip in America&apos;s culture wars: why does  the British royal family exerted so strong an appeal in republican America ? This is not a new phenomenon. Queen Victoria&apos;s son, later Edward VII, toured America on the eve of the Civil War and was greeted with adulation. What&apos;s going on?  Adam talks to Arianne Chernock and Frank Prochaska to find out. </p>","author_name":"Adam Smith"}