No Christmas crackers for fans of the royals (11)
I believe the answer is:
monarchists
'fans of the royals' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'no christmas crackers' is the wordplay.
'crackers' indicates an anagram (informal term for mad).
'no'+'christmas'='nochristmas'
'nochristmas' is an anagram of 'MONARCHISTS'.
'for' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for monarchists that I've seen before include "These would be for Queen Mary, say" , "those likely to enjoy the Queen's Speech?" .)