Yeah, I ***think ***I have heard of the 4th of July.
Look, for a sort of belated independence present, would you like to have all the royal family shipped over to the U.S.A? We really would not miss them, and it does amuse me a bit how so many of you on this Dope, despite being American and far away from all this nonsense, show quite a bit of interest in them.
Please, please do take them. No charge. Free to good home, or bad home, even.
As for the date of this baby, I just hope they don’t have a future king William on the 12th of July. That might cause some bother.
The Battle of the Boyne, when the protestant King William of Orange, newly installed on the throne from The Netherlands, defeated the Catholic, deposed, King James, an event still ‘celebrated’ by Protestant Orangemen in Northern Ireland. Not a date for national unity.
Rats! It never works. How will we ever get rid of them? We keep being told the royal family and hangers-on are good for tourism, but I have this sneaking suspicion that unheard-of little places like the U.S.A. and France and and so on do really rather well in terms of tourism despite having wisely got rid of their royals.
Bolding mine. My father and his siblings all have/had two middle names besides the surnames. It can be okay if you pick names that go together well. But one of my aunts was Amanda Hilda Pauline. To me that just doesn’t scan well. My uncles had names that, while very German sounding, did well together, but my father? Harold Harry Herbert Surname. And at that the name was revised, he’d originally had the first and third names switched, but people kept thinking he was named Herbert for the President.
Hasn’t she had that baby yet? I mean, she’s been pregnant since before the wedding and what was that, five years ago? Queen Victoria would’ve had a kid to marry into every last royal house in Europe by now.
I thought it was due in July. I’ll pick July 15, my grandmother’s birthday (she’d turn 108 this year if she were still alive). And also in honor of my grandmother, I’ll call it a girl.
Your grandmother and mine must have been very close in age. My grandmother died last November, less than a month before her 108th birthday.
I’ll say a girl too, but I doubt they’ll name her Esther. But it’s not outside the realm of possibility that one of the middle names would be Sophia, which was my maternal grandmother’s name.
She’ll be queen, so it’s likely to be a family name, and a regal one. I’m going with Mary, though I’m placing side bets on Margaret, Anne, and Alexandra.
We keep being told the royal family and hangers-on are good for tourism, but I have this sneaking suspicion that unheard-of little places like the U.S.A. and France and and so on do really rather well in terms of tourism despite having wisely got rid of their royals. 