Posted on 01/19/2014 10:33:59 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
It is being dubbed the “gentle succession” – as the Queen gradually begins to relinquish some of her traditional duties as monarch.
As she approaches her 88th birthday in April after almost 62 years on the throne, she has agreed to hand over part of her workload in a historic “job-share” arrangement with Prince Charles.
In a royal first, he will be taking on more head of state-style responsibilities as the Palace starts to make tentative plans for his eventual succession.
Courtiers yesterday described the softly-softly move as “wise” – and “just plain common sense”.
The first sign of the partial power transfer will be the merging this week of the Queen and Charles’s press offices.
In future any announcements concerning the monarch and her 65-year-old eldest son will now come from the same source. Palace sources insist the switch will be entirely seamless.
Princes William and Harry will also play their part in the new set-up, with both assuming far more responsibility since they relinquished their military roles.
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She should skip over him for William
If he is not an idiot, why does he act like one? If His Royal Highness was an American citizen, he would be an Obama-boosting liberal Democrat. If he ejects all the Muslims from Great Britain and stops calling himself Defender of the FAITHS, I might reconsider my opinion of him.
Izlamist King of England...Them English got to be proud...
Hmmm. Cyber “Cotton Mouth” liberty. Has a ring to it, but too much like “Big Mouth,” and everybody already knows that about me.
“Cobra” maybe?
The miching buffoon is 66 years old. We can only hope that he ends up face first in a butt of Malmsey, or at least so frequently imbibes pomace brandy that he is numbered among those who have experienced spontaneous combustion.
When speaking in reference to other countries, an American is well advised to be cautious about the meaning of the term, “conservative.” this reply on an old thread is one of my favorites, on the topic of American conservatism and its relation to conservatism in other countries.Because of this significant sections of the mass media does its best to try and make him look a fool - as they typically try to do with most conservatives.
My take on American conservatism (which may be relevant to Britain) is that Theodore Roosevelt nailed it in his famous speech to the Sarbone in Paris in 1910:It surprises me to some extent to see people on Freerepublic falling for such tactics, because they seem all too aware of them when they are applied to American figures - and the British press is, if anything, for the most part even more left wing than the US press.There is no more unhealthy being, no man less worthy of respect, than he who either really holds, or feigns to hold, an attitude of sneering disbelief toward all that is great and lofty, whether in achievement or in that noble effort which, even if it fails, comes to second achievement.Clearly, “the press” is guilty of functioning as “the critic” in TR’s posited scenario. It is only natural that they should tend to do so; they don’t do anything which makes them accountable for, you know, actual results - but they can criticize like nobody’s business. And - crucial point - journalists behave precisely as Adam Smith predicted:A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticise work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life's realities - all these are marks, not as the possessor would fain to think, of superiority but of weakness. They mark the men unfit to bear their part painfully in the stern strife of living, who seek, in the affection of contempt for the achievements of others, to hide from others and from themselves in their own weakness. The rôle is easy; there is none easier, save only the rôle of the man who sneers alike at both criticism and performance.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (Book I, Ch 10)Since all major journalists work for members of wire services, and since wire services function as virtual meetings of “people of the same trade (of journalism),” nothing else can be expected but that journalists will go along and get along with each other - to the detriment of the public. Especially do they do so by claiming that all journalists are objective, which in effect is a claim by each journalist that he himself is objective. Say what you will of the virtue of diligently trying to be objective, arguing from the assumption that you actually are objective serves the same function, and is no more justifiable, than claiming superior wisdom. Either amounts to mere arrogance in service to an attempt at censorship.
Considering how “our” journalists strain at gnats (in Chris Christie’s “Bridgegate”( and swallow camels (in reference to all things Benghazi, and ObamaCare, and Fast and Furious, and . . .) that is quite a strong claim you make about the British press.But then, I can match your friend Charles’ “Global Warming” credulousnes with that of a friend who is legitimately a scientist but who claimed to me that “the science” (of global warming) “is good.” So why should we wonder that conservatives are sometimes gulled by press reports?
It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing. Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments
Thank you.
Maybe someone knows how this works. If anything were to happen to Charles, would the succession go to his son or would it go to a sibling of the Queen? Now that Kate has a child, and Kate seems to be monarch material, it might be wise to put Charles on the throne so William becomes king. Some of those siblings kids are fruitcakes.
> Princes William and Harry will also play their part in the new set-up, with both assuming far more responsibility since they relinquished their military roles.
That was rumored some time ago — that Lizzie planned to bypass her mostly useless offspring and abdicate in favor of her grandson.
Edward VII was more interesting, with his playboy lifestyle. It continued to some degree even after he became king. When he died his queen, Alexandra of Denmark, said, “Well at least now I’ll know where he is.”
Same thing was said of William. Their Queen hasn’t said who will be king.
Okay, thank you for your personal perspective on this.
I appreciate the points regarding William as well.
My vision of Charles may be tainted by the press. Of course that’s the only view of him that I have. My impression goes back a long ways. It has never been all that favorable.
You should know better than I.
LOL
I’m not sure how she threw it away. Explain if you will.
I do agree with your age reference. There would be youthful vigor if only he did the right things, that would be good.
Seems a good analogy. :-)
Well as for philandering, but the dead bodies around the Clintons takes it to a whole new level.
Now that is the truth... but Camilla can kill a camera! ;-)
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