A hubbub over pledging fealty to the King/Queen (as the head of the church, or whatever) is not something buried in Britain's past. "The oath" was one of the major reasons for the Irish civil war. Eamon De Valera eventually said it, but he had his fingers behind his back or something so it didn't count (de Valera was clever like that).
Our Marxist Sinn Féin brethern elected to parliament seats to this day will not say the oath, and thus are not sat in the seats to which they were elected to in British Parliament to this day. This was a big issue decades ago and is still a big issue, it has not gone away.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/otherparties/story/0,9061,618112,00.html
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