[windchime]

Actually, I wasn't 'cause I had forgotten about that. I was thinking more like, "she thought she was . . . the Queen" in a ridiculing, derisive manner.

The gown and tiara provide further evidence.

[uncitizen]

Actually, I wasn't 'cause I had forgotten about that. I was thinking more like, "she thought she was . . . the Queen" in a ridiculing, derisive manner. The gown and tiara provide further evidence.

I meant it the way you said too. That they meant it in a derisive ridiculing manner. I just added the gown and tiara part because you mentioned how they degraded her at her funeral.

[Sacajaweau]

Look at it the Tiara another way:

"The Queen is Dead" AT LAST.

And who gets the throne??

[Sacajaweau]

Let me just expand that a little further:

Look at the tiara in another way, a sick way, Howard's way:

"The Queen is Dead" AT LAST.

And who assumes the throne??

THE CRACKER

Boy, this whole damn thing reeks of Shakespeare where I found the applicable reference to "Cracker".

To explain: A cracker is an arrogant, boastful person in English Literature and both Dickens and Shakespeare used it. Shakespeare uses it in King John. The Cracker character is an illegitimate son (this would be effectively be Howard)who makes claims to the throne. The legitimate son dies by accident. And yes, King John suddenly runs a fever and dies...poison.

Howard's plot is well...So Shakespeare!!