Within the historical context it always made sense.
Even so called US Royalty, somehow always tried to get access to born Royals.
From the perspective of Britain and its sphers of influence association was used as a form of name dropping.
American XYZ wishes to expand his buissenes to UK, the tax heavens like Cayman, or even rest of Europe, drops say Charles name, as a form of confirmation of his credibility, longevity, it's hard to explain, but even the aftermath of the Titanic sinking, Kennedy assassination etc, somehow connected the US elites with the British, Luxemburgian, or Lichtenstein Royals.
The other side is LLCs and offshore tax games.
@ Freda 19
I just fail at literacy.
"The potentially dangerous thing in this may turn out to be the choice of playing the long game."
I meant the Royals thinking that playing the long game, will work, I simply don't think so, with the constant media bombardments by the Harkles, mashinery.