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To: Tax-chick

Too bad he doesn’t ACT like him . . . George VI was a Good King.


20 posted on 12/15/2007 9:05:57 AM PST by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: AnAmericanMother; Tax-chick
George VI was a worthy successor to his rather disgusting older brother Edward.

Prince Charles resembles, in one way, his ancestor George IV, who married a charming socialite, only to see his marriage deteriorate due to the infidelities of both parties.

21 posted on 12/15/2007 9:20:06 AM PST by Clemenza (Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
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To: AnAmericanMother; Clemenza

Good points, both of you. George V also has a similar facial structure, although it’s harder to see behind the tonsorial flourishes. Both of them were quite decent gentlemen ... dull in a *good* way :-).

George IV was in a position similar to Prince Charles’s: he was Crown Prince (and later regent) for so many years, and didn’t take the throne until he was an old man.


22 posted on 12/15/2007 9:39:24 AM PST by Tax-chick (Every committee wants to take over the world.)
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To: AnAmericanMother

George VI was small in stature, and a man with no ambition to be king. Not an imposing figure, but a man of courage. They called him “George the Good.” Lucky enough to be married to a good, strong woman. Elizabeth like her mother, and in her day as pretty as a movie star. At the time of her coronation esembled Deborah Kerr. I think.


25 posted on 12/15/2007 12:03:45 PM PST by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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