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posted by Louise at 9:46 pm
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7 Comments:
Cool. Imagine how Canucks take over the royal throne and abolish a few things I don't want to go into now... I am all for it, in short.
Well Martha, abolishing Chucky-Pooh's chances of claiming the crown would be a good thing. But beyond that, I rather like the symbolism of a largely unbroken chain going waaaaay back to antiquity. It's a heritage thing.
Can't beat King Ralph!
Around these here parts, King Ralph normally refers to former Alberta Premier Ralph Klein. How I miss him.
"... the symbolism of a largely unbroken chain going waaaaay back to antiquity."
PEDANTIC MOMENT: Actually the unbroken bloodline only goes back to the imported German Protestant aristocrat whom they made George I in 1710 or thereabouts, on the death of Queen Anne, the last Stuart monarch. By bringing in this Continental import, the British Establishment safely assured the Protestant ascendancy in Britain. It wasn't until the lamentable George III that one of these German imports could actually speak English!
And actually, on both sides of the QEII/Phillip line, they're Krauts still, your "English" royals. Elizabeth is a Mountbatten, which was the WW1-politically motivated anglicanization of Von Battenburg. Phillip is of the German House of Schleswig-Holstein. When Elizabeth and Phillip married, some of Phillip's German sisters weren't allowed to attend, due to their former Nazi connections. Here's Phillip's family tree, pure Kraut. They make jokes about people from West Virginia mating with their siblings and cousins. These European royals are just as bad.
Darlin', your forgetting that all the royal houses of Europe were related to one another. Just about everywhere on the continent there would be some aspiring prince who could claim, rightly or wrongly, to be an heir to the British throne. Wars ensued.
There's a reason Queen Vicky was called the grandmother of Europe. The only "broken" part was the interregnum of Oliver Cromwell.
And besides that, where did the Angles, the Jutes and the Saxons came from?
And what about the identity of the remains of Czar Nicholas and his family being confirmed using Windsor DNA? That was not that long ago.
And the Normans and the Danes. With all of those folks, the crown, or at least the crown's wealth, was the prize. And William the Conqueror as well as Tostig, were Danes by ancestry, who in turn, were Germanic tribes.
With the Normans, there was a claim on the crown, too.
The Brits/English really are mongrels and we're proud of it.
Male primogeniture is something we can argue about next.
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