Yes it’s bizarre especially as the House of Windsor is the best example of this!
The Conservatives have become very detached from civic society and so have their outriders in the press and media.
Hence why they were also so slow to realise the damage they did with the farming community
Not too bizarre at all if you consider that the mass appeal of Conservatism has always been founded in a nostalgic wish to preserve society and tradition, maintaining calm and order, and to be left alone to live life as you yourself see fit. The maximize profits for a few wealthy Capitalists part of Conservatism is not really the driving force in support of right-wing parties except to a very small clique of people.
Therefore I don't really find it strange at all that the same people who don't like strangers moving into the village and doing "foreign stuff", also don't like corporations moving into their village and cutting down that forest which has been there for a couple hundred years.
Even, when it comes to the Green/environmental impulse, the anti-"stranger" stuff is often not so much about racism or xenophobia as it is about warding off the coarse arrivistes who might do a number on the village fabric. Maybe more like the Romney/Clinton voter than the Tory/Remain voter in that regard, i.e. Trump types as dreaded "strangers" to the Brahmin...
