Yeah I can see it’s only women, but still some of the women who do it surprise me. My mother is a devout republican (in the American sense, not the IRA sense). Her grandfather fought in the war of independence and against the free state in the civil war. Every philosophy she espouses is invariably grounded in fundamental republican ideals. Until someone from across the water who has a divine right to rule over others decides to get married, then all bets are off and all republican ideals forgotten. It wouldn’t bother me as much if similar interest was expressed in the Dutch or Scandinavian monarchies when their princesses are getting married, but it does seem to be exclusively the British monarchs who attract interest from the Irish and Americans, neither of whom have particularly friendly histories with the British monarch, but have no historical animosity with the royal houses of Europe whom they diligently ignore.