Posted on 01/22/2020 11:08:14 AM PST by nickcarraway
There was no media coverage of the Battle of Hastings. The first true British newspaper didn’t come out until 599 years later. Sorry, there was no television or internet. It’s actually scarcely turned up in British literature. Shakespeare and Chaucer never wrote about it. A deposed bishop wrote about it at the time, but it never made it to the big leagues.
What on earth are you talking about?
She was welcomed heartily. All the talk of racism was exactly that - talk - as they embraced a biracial royal spouse. She was given a title and lavished with a $3-4 million residence on crown land along with the usual security/protection. Despite talk of repayment a healthy skepticism is best.
We don’t do collective guilt at FR. ‘Fellow Americans’ are judged on their individual merit or lack of.
Lucky Harry.
Closeness in a family? Prince Charles didn’t even visit his oldest son when he fractures his skull at under age 10. His chief of staff kept fruitlessly begging him to at least occasionally be seen with his sons. Both him and the wife were philandering as soon as they could. Charles detests his mother, and she probably reciprocates. There was more closeness in the Manson family.
Lol. You bash Americans at the drop of a hat and you will do anything to defend feckless Germans/Brits.
For the last time, I’m talking of the monarchy and knowledge thereof, however it was recorded and disseminated. The reference to Shakespeare was a humorous nod to plays like Richard III and Henry V which - wait for it - are based on English kings however fictional elements of the plays might be. The monarchy and history were and are big news even if the news is delivered via the Bayeux Tapestry. Shakespeare was and is big. Their prominence and linkage form the basis of my reference. I can’t make it any clearer than that.
They didn’t hate her because she is some race, they hate her because she’s American.
With your mind reading skills you really should be making millions at the card tables in Las Vegas.
No, many people dislike her because she acts ungrateful, pushy, undignified, self-involved, fake and demanding.
Possibly the first thing you've said that was correct.
The fact is, although English schoolboys remember them in order, British history is not like you thinl.
Richard III is a fantastic play, but poor history. Shakespeare had to portray Richard like that, because his success and his ability to remain alive depended on it. Queen Elizabeth I viewed Richard as an usurper and her father and grandfather as saints. Henry IV and Henry V viewed Richard II as illegitimate, even though it makes no sense. And Harry's ancestor George I was viewed as illegitimate by many people, and certainly was by any rational reading.
By the way, a lot of these monarchs were killers, and did other unsavory things. Including against Americans. I don't quite understand why you hold them in such esteem and are more loyal to them then your own countrymen. (Perhaps I'm assuming wrongly you are from the U.S.?)
LOL. Look, I have no great liking for her, but you greatly exaggerate her faults. The words you use are codewords among snobby Brits for, “American.” And even though I’m not a greta fan of hers, I can see she married down into a criminal thug family.
No she/they didn’t. They kept their HRH designations although they agreed not to use them, and she is now styled Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.
Although Halfwit supposedly has a substantial inheritance from his mother, H & M are still being funded by Daddy Charles to the tune of $2-$3 million per year, and Charles (not them) indicated his help is not limitless. H & M are still trying to get either the taxpayers in Great Britain and Canada or Daddy Charles to pay their security costs too, to the tune of over $1 million per year.
Out of curiosity, do you tend to make these attribution errors on a regular basis?
I describe or relate what other people think or say and you attribute it to me. You also attribute things to me I haven’t said. You even attribute thoughts to me. Then you attribute the British public’s attitude to a single characteristic - in this case, her nationality. As with most oversimplifications, it’s inherently inaccurate. In this case, it’s also factually inaccurate. Not because of what I think or say but because these are sentiments expressed by them.
Adjectives need not be codewords. There are plenty of prominent individuals who have been described thus - Jeremy Corbyn, Nicola Sturgeon, John Bercow, and Emma Thompson spring immediately to mind. Britons all.
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You should read all the Muslim stuff. Price Charles even angered a very liberal Archbishop of Canterbury by saying he would ditch Christian titles when he becomes king. He even won a prize no westerner has from Brunei for defending Islam. The brief and only period he defended Christians in the Middle East it was as a personal favor to the King of Jordan. William also, going to the Mosque in New Zealand to speak. And Charles' first wife was about to convert before she died.
I think we can both agree that I won’t be relying on your good advices for reading material.
And as to that money, what did Charles and his family do to earn/justify this money anyway. And speaking of Charles, he and his wife Diana were lucky if their combined IQ was 100. You really agree with Charles trying to cleanse the country of Christians, and promote Islam and Climate Change? Not to mention their whole Jeffrey E[stein deal. Why do you like Brits (Germans, really) more than the U.S.? Do you want the Clintons or Obama to become our monarchs?
You'd be better off reading Chaucer, Shakespeare, Austen, Elliot, Conan-Doyle, Conrad etc., but don't take my advice. Even Sillitoe or either Amis would be a lot better. If you go with Rushdie, make sure it's Midnight's Children.
FReepers have discussed many of those subjects over the years, but this thread is supposed to be about the MeGain deprogramming Halfwit from the Windsor Cult.
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