sunseeker, I agree, "some" should always be key when describing any demographic. I'm like you I don't have a great interest in the RF but neither do I see them as the pernicious force that some make them out to be and as for describing the general public as being "subservient" to them, a complete misuse of the word. Google some regimes around the world that have presidential governments and the true meaning of that word can be understood, not to mention the misappropriation of public funds, which in some instances is staggering, and cannot be offset by any revenue that our benign, non despotic as they are now, RF produce by attracting tourism into our country. In fact that charge of "how much it all costs" could also be levied at the behemoth that is the EU, that largesse doesn't come cheap either
Going back to the panoply that surrounds an event such as a royal wedding there are of course people who turn out for such an occasion and completely revel in that, although it always strikes me when such fans are interviewed there are always a fair sprinkling of overseas visitors expressing delight in being here at such a time. Do they represent the nation as a whole, I doubt it. There is a palpable Scottish vitriol held by a small minority towards the English hence the pejorative "the English have a strange sort of subservience" comment.