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To: Red Badger

The monarchy had it’s place and time but it’s all but kaput now. Charles should be the last King of England, the entire institution should be dismantled and left to the domain of history


39 posted on 03/14/2023 1:24:57 PM PDT by The Louiswu
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To: The Louiswu

I think the British people should be the ones to decide that.

(I assume you’re an American, and wouldn’t like it if the Brits told you how to run your country.)


50 posted on 03/14/2023 1:39:09 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: The Louiswu
"The monarchy had its place and time but it’s all but kaput now."

They ended the monarchy when they beheaded Charles I. Then after Oliver Cromwell died, the country fell to pieces, and begged his son Charles to come back and take the crown. England's problem is that since the Act of Settlement in 1701, they will only allow a Protestant to hold the throne. When Charles II died in 1685, he had no legitimate heirs, and his brother James II inherited the throne that year, then converted to Catholicism. He was driven from the throne in December 1688, and fled to France for the remainder of his life. His daughter Mary, who was married to William of Orange. Both were Protestants and took over the throne. Their daughter Anne inherited the throne in March 1702. She had no children that lived, and the crown passed to George I of Germany. During the First World War, the English Royal Family chose to change their last name from the German Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, to Windsor because of anti-German sentiment in the U.K.

67 posted on 03/14/2023 2:22:18 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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