The City of London IS part of the UK. But my understanding is that is has a special status, similar to Washington DC, so I believe it's technically not part of England, but is part of the UK, in the same way that some of the islands around Britain are not part of any of the 4 home countries but are part of the UK. This stems from the fact that the City of London was a seperate country in early English history when England was first consolidated, and then it eventually agreed to recognize the English king under the condition that it could keep a lot of its medieval political practices. The monarch asking permission to enter the City is one of the rights it got to keep.
Same with Washington DC. Given that DC was literally set aside in the founding of the country, it is one of the biggest suggestions that traitors were involved in the founding of our country.
Actually, 'representative republics' (where you vote for a human representative that 'promises' to vote a certain way) instead of just using weighted votes with congress apportioning weights was legitimately one of the first eye openers to a younger, more liberal, preteen me. I legitimately assumed that maybe the math didn't exist for doing weighted votes, and thus that is why the founders left the country open for a coup through the 'representatives'. I actually got written up for arguing with my Civics and Economics teacher over this.
The Washington DC thing was literally 2-3 weeks later, and I got written up over that one too. My parents actually came to the school and yelled at the guy in front of me and the Principal. Lol I hope to be as awesome as my parents were.
No one here gave you any shit for inserting AYE into TIL as TAL so it falls upon me to say that you typed thing wrong and you are a deviant and yada yada yada :P