ABSTRACT Historians have argued that the Great War crystalized the idea of a modern popular monarchy in Britain and across the British imperial world. This version of sovereignty successfully negotiated the wartime crises of resurgent republicanism and the nationalisms that toppled other dynasties across Europe. Yet the story has largely been told ‘from above’. The article draws on the extensive and under-examined testimony of soldiers and nurses from Australia, Canada and Britain to argue that wartime efforts by George V and his advisors to make the monarchy more accessible produced diverse and contradictory responses, which challenged imperial expectations. Shaped by human-interest journalism and populist pressure to reduce the cultural distance between monarchy and mass society, these personal accounts revise conceptions of royal patriotism. Letters, diaries and oral histories from the front and the home front reveal how reactions to meeting royalty close-up ranged from respect through casual and tourist interest to satire, derision and desacralization, as well as stimulating more overtly political demands. Men and women differed significantly in their attitudes to royalty, and the article explores how the monarchy was experienced as part of the masculine and feminine rituals of wartime everyday life.

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无障碍主权：一战期间民众对英国君主制的态度

摘要 历史学家认为，第一次世界大战使英国和整个大英帝国世界的现代流行君主制的理念具体化。这种版本的主权成功地解决了共和主义复兴的战时危机和推翻欧洲其他王朝的民族主义。然而，这个故事主要是“自上而下”讲述的。这篇文章借鉴了来自澳大利亚、加拿大和英国的士兵和护士的广泛且未经审查的证词，认为乔治五世及其顾问在战时为使君主制更容易接近而做出的努力产生了多样化和矛盾的反应，这挑战了帝国的期望。在人类利益新闻和民粹主义压力的影响下，这些个人账户修正了皇室爱国主义的概念。来自前线和家庭前线的信件、日记和口述历史揭示了对与皇室成员近距离接触的反应如何，从尊重、休闲和旅游兴趣到讽刺、嘲笑和去神圣化，以及刺激更公开的政治要求。男性和女性对皇室的态度存在显着差异，本文探讨了作为战时日常生活中男性和女性仪式一部分的君主制是如何被体验的。