# Prince Hairy in Las Vegas **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 22, 2012, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-hairy-in-las-vegas/632233 "2012-08-22T01:05:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-hairy-in-las-vegas/632233/81 "2012-08-27T10:38:19Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#): > > It’s likely that Charles will die before HM 😕 Do you know something we don’t? ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-hairy-in-las-vegas/632233/82 "2012-08-27T19:37:38Z")
Okay, how about “entirely possible” that Charles will die before his mother. Women tend to outlive men, and she’s only got 22 years on him. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-hairy-in-las-vegas/632233/83 "2012-08-28T01:32:19Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > She was probably the prettiest princess of the last century. But she had no education, morals or class and was known to basically fuck anything she pleased well into her old age. Some of that is her parents’ fault. Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon didn’t really value education for girls. She simply couldn’t see any point in sending her daughters to school (even it had become the norm for girls of that social class by then). George V wasn’t much better. Princess Elizabeth got a real education because she was expected to become Queen one day and thus needed to learn subjects like history, politcal science, & constitutional law. At least younger sons were brought up for a career in the military or civil service. Princess Margaret was brought up to do anything besides marrying well, attending parties, and light charity work. Granted this was true of most women of her class. She was very resentful of her lack of education as an adult (but never bothered doing anything to correct that either). ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-hairy-in-las-vegas/632233/84 "2012-08-28T01:50:24Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > Some of that is her parents’ fault. Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon didn’t really value education for girls. She simply couldn’t see any point in sending her daughters to school (even it had become the norm for girls of that social class by then). George V wasn’t much better. Princess Elizabeth got a real education because she was expected to become Queen one day and thus needed to learn subjects like history, politcal science, & constitutional law. > > At least younger sons were brought up for a career in the military or civil service. Princess Margaret was brought up to do anything besides marrying well, attending parties, and light charity work. Granted this was true of most women of her class. She was very resentful of her lack of education as an adult (but never bothered doing anything to correct that either). No sense educating Margaret though. No reason why George VI would have any reason to consider the possibility of a younger sibling unexpectedly becoming the monarch. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-hairy-in-las-vegas/632233/85 "2012-08-28T02:11:23Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > No sense educating Margaret though. No reason why George VI would have any reason to consider the possibility of a younger sibling unexpectedly becoming the monarch. Yeah, just imagine what a fiasco it would’ve been if her older sister had died in childbirth & Prince Charles had been stillborn. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-hairy-in-las-vegas/632233/86 "2012-08-31T20:53:01Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > She was probably the prettiest princess of the last century. But she had no education, morals or class and was known to basically fuck anything she pleased well into her old age. Cite ? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prince-hairy-in-las-vegas/632233.md?page=4)