"I love England though; I've been back a few times and just love it. My favorite thing to do there is going to museums and all the castles. Oh, and my husband and I went mountain biking across England on our honeymoon!"
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There is a particular kind of transatlantic affection that reads less like geopolitics and more like a scrapbook, and Catherine Bell nails it. The England she loves is not a nation so much as a curated itinerary: museums, castles, and a honeymoon that turns the countryside into a personal montage. It is tourism-speak, yes, but it also functions as a low-stakes declaration of taste. Museums signal culture without the burden of expertise; castles supply instant history with photogenic edges; mountain biking adds the crucial note of vitality, the detail that keeps this from sounding like a brochure.
The repetition of “love” matters. It’s a rhetorical softener, smoothing any sharpness into warmth, and it stakes the claim that this admiration is emotional, not performative. At the same time, the specificity of “my husband and I” and “on our honeymoon” quietly recruits the relationship as proof: this isn’t a passing preference, it’s a place folded into a life narrative. For a model speaking in a public register, that’s savvy. You get aspirational lifestyle (travel, romance, adventure) with none of the controversy that “I love England” could carry if it drifted toward politics, class, or empire.
The subtext is about belonging at a safe distance. England becomes a prestige backdrop you can repeatedly return to, consume, and remember. It’s heritage as experience economy: history made intimate, strenuous, and, above all, pleasant.
The repetition of “love” matters. It’s a rhetorical softener, smoothing any sharpness into warmth, and it stakes the claim that this admiration is emotional, not performative. At the same time, the specificity of “my husband and I” and “on our honeymoon” quietly recruits the relationship as proof: this isn’t a passing preference, it’s a place folded into a life narrative. For a model speaking in a public register, that’s savvy. You get aspirational lifestyle (travel, romance, adventure) with none of the controversy that “I love England” could carry if it drifted toward politics, class, or empire.
The subtext is about belonging at a safe distance. England becomes a prestige backdrop you can repeatedly return to, consume, and remember. It’s heritage as experience economy: history made intimate, strenuous, and, above all, pleasant.
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