Thread: HRH to retire next year, at 95 ?

Originally Posted by Eevo

they will be annexed and reeducated.

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

Originally Posted by SBD4

I like him more, the older he gets. I watch this and was impressed:
Prince Charles Inside The Duchy Of Cornwall : ABC iview

Hé is already doing the job just does not have the hat that goes with it. Mother is still pulling the strings which is good as gives depth of experience

tend to think more of this one though as showing something about the person. Am sure the person who posted it has no idea what was going on here and why it is funny

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Originally Posted by Eevo

soon my comrades. the republic of australia & new zealand will rise.

The door has always been open for NZ to join the Commonwealth (have a read of the Constitution) - but they have never seemed to have much desire to do so!

Being an "Old Pom", I'm a Monarchist through & through.
I think Charles is "past it", & is not in touch with reality often enough.
I have believed for some time that William should be the next to wear the Crown, Much younger, more "aware" of the "everyday" world & a squillion times more popular than Charles.
Of course, this is just IMHO, & has basically no chance of happening.
Pickles.

Originally Posted by 3toes

Hé is already doing the job just does not have the hat that goes with it. Mother is still pulling the strings which is good as gives depth of experience

tend to think more of this one though as showing something about the person. Am sure the person who posted it has no idea what was going on here and why it is funny

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I doubt there is any one here who does not have a skeleton or two in the closest. This may explain Andrew.


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Originally Posted by Pickles2

Being an "Old Pom", I'm a Monarchist through & through.
I think Charles is "past it", & is not in touch with reality often enough.
I have believed for some time that William should be the next to wear the Crown, Much younger, more "aware" of the "everyday" world & a squillion times more popular than Charles.
Of course, this is just IMHO, & has basically no chance of happening.
Pickles.

William has married outside the circle of Royal Cousins, as has Harry, thereby keeping their gene pool clear of the problems related with the inbreeding of European Royals over the centuries. A 21st century solution to hereditary madness would be to start afresh with the gene pool. Therefore perhaps Charles should be appointed Royal Gardener , to talk to the roses, and William should start a new, fresh dynasty. Only that way , I think, could Britain be confident of ensuring a strong and healthy blood line in their Royal Family. Any way, Oliver Cromwell, according to Monty Python.


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Originally Posted by bob10

William has married outside the circle of Royal Cousins, as has Harry, thereby keeping their gene pool clear of the problems related with the inbreeding of European Royals over the centuries. A 21st century solution to hereditary madness would be to start afresh with the gene pool. Therefore perhaps Charles should be appointed Royal Gardener , to talk to the roses, and William should start a new, fresh dynasty. Only that way , I think, could Britain be confident of ensuring a strong and healthy blood line in their Royal Family. Any way, Oliver Cromwell, according to Monty Python.


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Diana's blood line was closer to the old English royal lines and should have improved the breeding of the Monarchy. Betty's family are a bunch of German usurpers according to my SWMBO who can trace descent from Cousin Willy The Conqueror. Mrs. says she has a better claim to the throne by blood descent than the current lot.

Originally Posted by Bigbjorn

Diana's blood line was closer to the old English royal lines and should have improved the breeding of the Monarchy. Betty's family are a bunch of German usurpers according to my SWMBO who can trace descent from Cousin Willy The Conqueror. Mrs. says she has a better claim to the throne by blood descent than the current lot.

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

.

^[58]

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.