# The reign of King Charles III of the United Kingdom **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 8, 2022, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reign-of-king-charles-iii-of-the-united-kingdom/971232 "2022-09-08T18:05:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 34
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2022, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reign-of-king-charles-iii-of-the-united-kingdom/971232/661 "2022-10-29T13:05:55Z")
He was born to a half Scottish mother and his claim to the throne ultimately rests on descent from a Scottish monarch. ---
**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2022, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reign-of-king-charles-iii-of-the-united-kingdom/971232/662 "2022-10-30T11:31:06Z")
Nimueh has a lot to answer for. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2022, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reign-of-king-charles-iii-of-the-united-kingdom/971232/663 "2022-10-30T11:46:11Z")
> [@UDS1](#): > > So you could argue that present King is not - or should not be - Charles III of the UK. IIRC, this was subject to a lawsuit as the Scots felt that Elizabeth II should not be “the Second”, at least in Scotland, and her cypher was defaced on mailboxes in Scotland. A judge ruled that the regnal number chosen was a royal prerogative. So Charles could have chosen Charles XVIIII if he wanted to (legally). ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2022, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reign-of-king-charles-iii-of-the-united-kingdom/971232/664 "2022-10-30T12:00:47Z")
To be fair, Elizabeth I wasn’t the Queen of Scotland during her reign, Mary Queen of Scots was. And then James VI was King. Of course Elizabeth is descended from……Mary. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2022, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reign-of-king-charles-iii-of-the-united-kingdom/971232/665 "2022-10-30T12:25:42Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > To be fair, Elizabeth I wasn’t the Queen of Scotland during her reign, Mary Queen of Scots was. Yes. I didn’t put that in my post but that is the reason the Scots gave. ---
**Author:** ![Bootb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bootb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootb)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2022, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reign-of-king-charles-iii-of-the-united-kingdom/971232/666 "2022-10-30T14:41:03Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > Of course Elizabeth is descended from……Mary. Huh? Elizabeth I was born in 1533. Mary Queen of Scots was born in 1542. ---
**Author:** ![colinfred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colinfred/32/21338_2.png) [@colinfred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colinfred)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2022, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reign-of-king-charles-iii-of-the-united-kingdom/971232/667 "2022-10-30T14:59:09Z")
Elizabeth II ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2022, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reign-of-king-charles-iii-of-the-united-kingdom/971232/668 "2022-10-30T16:44:38Z")
And Mary was descended from Henry VII through his daughter Margaret Tudor. ---
**Author:** ![UDS1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e47774/32.png) [@UDS1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UDS1)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reign-of-king-charles-iii-of-the-united-kingdom/971232/669 "2022-10-31T00:51:58Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > He was born to a half Scottish mother and his claim to the throne ultimately rests on descent from a Scottish monarch. Well, you say a half-Scottish mother. But his “Scottish” grandmother, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyons, was born in London. Both of her parents were born in England, and I think all four of her grandparents. I think one of Charles’s 32 great-great-great grandparents was born in Scotland. Charles’s great-grandfather had a Scottish title, he went to high school in Scotland and his family has long has a Scottish holiday home. Those are probably his strongest claims to Scottishness. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reign-of-king-charles-iii-of-the-united-kingdom/971232/670 "2022-10-31T19:40:24Z")
That, and he looks so damned good in a kilt. Oh, and now, like his mother, he’s awoken by a bagpiper each morning. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reign-of-king-charles-iii-of-the-united-kingdom/971232/671 "2022-10-31T19:45:24Z")
I would not complain about this as my alarm clock. My neighbors might. Edit: i used to take lunch break at an open air mall near my office and somewhere up in the multistory buildings that surrounded it, someone was using his/her lunchbreak to practice bagpipes. I loved it. ---
**Author:** ![UDS1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e47774/32.png) [@UDS1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UDS1)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2022, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reign-of-king-charles-iii-of-the-united-kingdom/971232/672 "2022-11-01T00:20:41Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > I would not complain about this as my alarm clock. > > My neighbors might. Definition of a gentleman: A man who can play the bagpipes, but doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2022, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reign-of-king-charles-iii-of-the-united-kingdom/971232/673 "2022-11-09T14:27:03Z")
Hope this doesn’t become a habit. > **[Police detain man after eggs thrown at King Charles III](https://www.aol.com/news/police-detain-man-eggs-thrown-122451720.html)** > > Video footage showed several eggs in motion and smashed on the ground. None appeared to hit the king as he and his wife visited a city in northern England. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2022, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reign-of-king-charles-iii-of-the-united-kingdom/971232/674 "2022-11-09T14:32:21Z")
There’s always one (I take it they mean metaphorical, verbal vitriol) ---
**Author:** ![UDS1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e47774/32.png) [@UDS1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UDS1)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reign-of-king-charles-iii-of-the-united-kingdom/971232/675 "2022-11-10T01:14:12Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Hope this doesn’t become a habit. The egging or the arresting? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reign-of-king-charles-iii-of-the-united-kingdom/971232/676 "2022-11-10T17:52:46Z")
Either. But the latter I think necessarily follows the former. ---
**Author:** ![Mk\_VII](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Mk\_VII](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mk_VII)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reign-of-king-charles-iii-of-the-united-kingdom/971232/677 "2022-11-10T22:18:19Z")
Will he adopt the John Prescott approach to eggs? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/8UhME8dcOqc/hqdefault.jpg "The Prescott Punch - Rhyl, 2001") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UhME8dcOqc) ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reign-of-king-charles-iii-of-the-united-kingdom/971232/678 "2022-11-10T22:40:37Z")
> [@Mk\_VII](#): > > Will he adopt the John Prescott approach to eggs? Helmut Kohl tried the same in 1991, but was held back by his security. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ZgVwMa4hmXg/hqdefault.jpg "Helmut Kohl - Eierwurf am 10.05.1991") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgVwMa4hmXg) ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reign-of-king-charles-iii-of-the-united-kingdom/971232/679 "2022-11-10T23:06:17Z")
I’m sure Jean Chrétien would be ready to give tips to His Majesty: > **[Shawinigan Handshake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawinigan_Handshake)** > > Shawinigan Handshake is the epithet given to a chokehold executed on February 15, 1996 by Jean Chrétien, then-Prime Minister of Canada, on anti-poverty protester Bill Clennett. The phrase comes from Chrétien's birthplace of Shawinigan, Quebec, as he often styled himself the "little guy from Shawinigan". > Political tensions had been high in Canada since the result of the October 30, 1995 referendum on Quebec separating from Canada, which failed by a narrow margin. On November 5, 1995, Quebec separ... ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reign-of-king-charles-iii-of-the-united-kingdom/971232/680 "2022-11-10T23:25:18Z")
They don’t appear at all happy to see him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reign-of-king-charles-iii-of-the-united-kingdom/971232.md?page=33) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reign-of-king-charles-iii-of-the-united-kingdom/971232.md?page=35)