HRH to retire next year, at 95 ?

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Originally Posted by RANDLOVER

That is some history indeed, as the best I've seen in those "Who Do Yo Think you Are?" programmes was Alexander Armstrong and they traced his family back to 1066.

From Wikipedia....."

In August 2010, Armstrong was featured in an episode of

BBC One

's

Who Do You Think You Are?

, through which he discovered that he was a descendant of

William the Conqueror

. His father comes from a landowning family with deep connections to the

North East

, and is a great-grandnephew of

Robert Spence Watson

and distantly related to

William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong

.

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With Armstrong's father's family history already well-known to him, the series traced his mother's side of the family, who were descended from Irish

landed gentry

."

And re: the OP, certainly a well deserved retirement.

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That's nothing. I know a couple of fellas who can trace their bloodline back 60,000 years.


https://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/artic...bunuba-warrior

I can trace my English bloodline back to 1243 in Devon, so that makes me better qualified to be King than those usurpers descended from the Germans, I reckon.
My first act as King would be to introduce a Bill to cancel the monarchy and introduce a republic.
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Originally Posted by BradC

If they were "educated" they wouldn't have produced John Clarke and Murray Ball. Leave 'em alone I say!

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i really cant argue with that can i

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Originally Posted by JDNSW

but they have never seemed to have much desire to do so!

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hence the annex option. [bigsmile1]

Do we want them?

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Originally Posted by JDNSW

Do we want them?

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australia needs living space for her people
living space in the east.

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Originally Posted by Eevo

australia needs living space for her people
living space in the east.

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Lebensraum, Ostfront. I think I have heard that sometime earlier. [bigwhistle]

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Originally Posted by DiscoMick

I can trace my English bloodline back to 1243 in Devon, so that makes me better qualified to be King than those usurpers descended from the Germans, I reckon.
My first act as King would be to introduce a Bill to cancel the monarchy and introduce a republic.
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Probably not that simple.

The UK political system


The United Kingdom is a parliamentary democracy: government is voted into power by the people, to act in the interests of the people. Every adult has the right to vote - known as 'universal suffrage'.

Alongside this system, the UK is also a constitutional monarchy. This is a situation where there is an established monarch (currently Queen Elizabeth II), who remains politically impartial and with limited powers.

Parliament and Crown - UK Parliament

The evolution of the British Parliament.

The evolution of Parliament - UK Parliament

One of the fascinating things I have found about the history of the British constitution is that the US constitution looks a lot like the British one did in the second half of the eighteenth century, with a hereditary head of government/state replaced by an indirectly elected head of government/state with a fixed term, suitably modified to fit a federation, most notably with the House of Lords replaced by a Senate elected by the states making up the federation.

The Australian constitution looks a lot like the British constitution did in 1900, with the head of state and head of government by then being separate individuals (Queen & PM), with the head of government and all ministers now required to be members of parliament, and again, modified to suit a federation, directly copying the US model with a state elected Senate. Not having a written constitution, the British constitution can and does change quite rapidly, without upheaval, compared to countries with written constitutions that have usually been designed to be difficult to change.