Her knowledge isn’t only confined to British affairs. She apparently keeps on on politics throughout the Commonwealth.
And she has six decades of experience in British politics which I assume gives her some leverage in her dealings with her ministers. I imagine it must be a little intimidating when she offers her opinion and begins with “I remember a time Winston Churchill and I discussed this issue…”
Hmm…the Greek Royal Family are out a kingdom, and Orthodox.
Only one of those is actually worrying to me (the odd letters).
I see what you did there.
It’s cute that you think Canada is important.
Actually, it is for geographic reasons, as a fossil fuel source next to the Arctic. You win, Zakalwe, this time.
And Prince Philip is one of them, which means Charles is too.
Ah but the descendants of the Stuarts are on the throne. Sophia of Hanover was a descendant of James I/VI daughter Elizabeth.
:mad: Try telling that to Prince Michael of Albany!
Not what I meant. Philip Mountbatten is Anglican now, and gave up his Greek and Danish titles. I was thinking of the exiles who live in New York and London but call themselves “Prince So-and-so of Greece.”
And I think we’ve mentioned before that Michel Roger Lafosse (“Prince Michael of Albany”) is a pretend Pretender.
. . . I think there might be some in Greenwich Village, but they don’t spell “Greece” that way.
That plus the fact it’s not really the 16th Century any more. The sort of shenanigans that went on back when the UK was a hereditary dictatorship aren’t possible because the real power lies with the democratic institutions.
Those institutions (PM and parliament) are only going to boot an unpopular hereditary figurehead in favour of a different one if it becomes a big political issue and there’s votes in it. That isn’t the case now and I can’t imagine it becoming so. The monarchy is a sideshow and isn’t the subject of present politics. For every voter that would change their vote to see Chuckie skipped there are others who would be appalled at the idea of the PM and parliament taking positive steps to change the usual order of things. I don’t think any major party would want to be seen to be touching the issue with a bargepole.
Wow, great source.
Sarcasm noted. Seriously, have you seen TVTropes’s useful notes? They’re really detailed in some cases.
Astonishingly so.
Especially since the monarch isn’t just the head of state of the UK.
Where have you read this? So far as I can tell there’s absolutely no reason to believe that any word of this is true. In fact, from what I know, the queen is very much opposed to anyone being skipped or for doing anything to try to get around the rules. She never forgave her uncle for abdicating and putting the unexpected burden of kingship on her father.
Other messageboards, in posts by self-ID’d Brits.
I think it would be a nice gesture for Charles to abdicate, in favor of a restoration of the House of Sturat! Those Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Germans have been a royal pain!
I would guess that it’s more wishful thinking than anything else. Charles is unpopular among certain segments of people and so they like to imagine that he’s similarly unpopular with his mother.
Yeah! No more damn Germans! Let’s have the Stuart heir on the throne: Franz Bonaventura Adalbert Maria Herzog von Bayern! A True Scotsman!
I believe that both Charles and the mother of his children descended from the Stuarts, and were more English in any case than the senior male-line Stuart (a Bavarian).
Now, you wanna restore English kings of England, descended from old atheling families, that might mean something.
Indeed, to be eligible for the throne you must be a non-Catholic descendant of Sophia, the granddaughter of James VI and I, the first Stuart king of England.
Actually, I think I read once that the House of Windsor is descended from the Athelings.