Posted on 12/30/2021 12:55:27 AM PST by RandFan
"Annus horribilis" is how the Queen described 1992 - her children's complicated love lives and a fire at Windsor Castle bringing an unexpected public display of exasperation.
For 2021 no one has, so far, coined such a memorable description, but it does feel like it's needed one after one of the most dramatic years for the Windsors in recent history.
The death of the Duke of Edinburgh in April at the age of 99, while not a complete shock after a spell in hospital, was certainly devastating for his wife and the rest of the family; the warmth and openness of their tributes is something I will never forget.
But as if coming to terms with that loss wasn't enough for the 95-year-old monarch, the family troubles kept coming thick and fast.
We saw Harry and Meghan sitting down with Oprah, racism claims against the family, bullying allegations within the palace which Meghan has denied, and the compensation case brought against Prince Andrew over those allegations of sexual abuse that he has always said are without foundation.
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No piece of cake for the rest of us either.
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This is true Danny.
Spare a thought for the peons like us putting up with record inflation and COVID hysteria/restrictions.
I can’t wait to see the back of ‘21 to be fair.
Happy New Year.
We thought the worst was behind us a year ago too
Chicken meet roost
Like I care about how some rich inbred people who think they’re better than everyone else had such a hard time this year.
I agree,
I mean no disrespect to the Queen, but why do we even give a S**t about her so called hard year. I wonder why some Americans even care about the Royal Family, I thought we stopped caring around 1776 /sarc.
Any human who thinks they are more important than everyone else simply because of who their parents were is not worthy of my respect.
I love when people call these frauds “royal.”
Inbred, German protestant heretics are not “royal.” They’re white trash - only existing for sentimental British fools.to feel good about their withered POS island.
Maybe the silly old b***h will just drop dead, so her full-retard, woke son can pretend HE is king for a while.
😂😂 Harsh AF, but so true.
I’m sorry to chime in, but it is almost an English tradition to have rulers who stem from a non-English background.
To be honest, the last ethnically English king of England was Harold Godwinson, who was killed in action in 1066 in the battle of Hastings against William the Conqueror and his Normans.
The Norman kings were succeeded in 1154 by the Plantagenet kings, originally from Western France. When they died out in 1485, thw Tudors followed, who were mainly of Welsh heritage.
They, in turn, were succeeded by the House of Stuart, originally from Scotland. In 1714, Queen Anne, the last Stuart ruler, died ansd was succeeded by the Hanovrians.
Since then the rulers of England (and the UK) have indeed sprung from German ancestors.
Thus, a ruler of foreign heritage has been the norm in England for nearly a thousand years now.
Kindest regards :-)
You forgot the part where Henry VIII de legitimized the throne..but thanks for chiming in.
What leads you to believe that the Queen ‘thinks she is more important than everyone else’?
By the fact she has not abdicated or even better, advocated for the dissolution of the crown.
Pardon my question, but do you mean King Henry’s initiation of the English Reformation - or, as the critics of this measure call it - his breaking away from the Catholic Church?
Hmmmmm...but couldn’t there be said something in favor of the British political system of a constitutional monarchy?
It has existed for hundreds of years, after all, and served Britain rather well; at least to these humble eyes :-)
Am I really the first person to let on that false religions (Anglican, Methodist, Baptist etc.) - and the end of British monarch legitimacy - began, precisely, in Henry’s nutsack?
On the first of those alternatives, dereliction of duty rather than its opposite, the unwavering observance of duty, is surely a more logical indicator of presumed self-importance. On the second, how do you know she hasn’t?
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