Posted on 09/16/2017 2:35:21 AM PDT by iowamark
“courtier”? What horse manure. It was a long term employee who pixed off the spoiled brat kids. Of course the employee has to go.
I fired a cleaning lady who told her kids my daughter wet the bed. Your loyalty is to your kids, not the employees, get that? Blood thicker than water.
This is September. Do they still disburse news by horse and carriage in GB?
Was there a defenestration?
It is up to God. The queen is born again, Charles is doubtful with some pretty concrete evidence he has opposed Christ.
I have to agree with the others down the thread that it is hard to care about the problems of enormously wealthy people who have never worked a day in their lives.
However, I do enjoy reading about Kate and William and of course, Harry (never know what he’s going to do, LOL. Plus, he volunteered for the military, IIRC).
I wanted to note this line: “ Charles is thought to want
Sandringham to go organic.” Yes, I think “green” and “organic” are Charles’ pet causes.
I don’t think that can be said of King George VI.
And once again, America will be at the rescue. It is a real shame we won't be able to count on Great Britain.
We can probably count on Poland and perhaps Australia, but sometimes I wonder why the U.S. has to be the world's police. Sometimes I think, let's just build a wall around the entire country and let the rest of the world deal with the consequences of their own decisions. I'll be stuck here in Canada with pretty boy, Muslim-lover Trudeau, but I will be praying for the land I was born in and will love for always.
And once again, America will be at the rescue. It is a real shame we won't be able to count on Great Britain.
We can probably count on Poland and perhaps Australia, but sometimes I wonder why the U.S. has to be the world's police. Sometimes I think, let's just build a wall around the entire country and let the rest of the world deal with the consequences of their own decisions. I'll be stuck here in Canada with pretty boy, Muslim-lover Trudeau, but I will be praying for the land I was born in and will love for always.
I just don’t understand an importance placed on genetic royalty. To me it is much like strapping horns on horses and calling them a protected family of unicorns.
“It has been suggested that Andrew’s antipathy stems from the role played by Sir Christopher in forcing him to step down as trade ambassador in 2011 over his friendship with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.”
Oh? Really? His “friendship” with Epstein? Or maybe it was that he enjoyed multiple counts of sex with a sixteen year old girl Epstein brought him??
Am I a few moves behind? :^)
I thought the idea was that prince Chuck would simply take over more duties and not actually get crowned. Has that plan now changed?
There is some speculation that in a few years time, if she is still alive, the Queen may hand over power to the Prince of Wales as Prince Regent, without abdicating herself. This would give him the powers of King but not make him King.
But even if she did this, on her death, he would then become King.
So duties can be transferred to him without him immediately King, but it would still happen eventually assuming he outlives his mother.
The Prince of Wales treats Islam with respect. But he also has a history of speaking out about the oppression of Christians by Muslims in the Middle East - one of the few significant figures in the west who does so. He makes a distinction between Muslims who are trying to hurt people and those who aren't.
Unfortunately, the media doesn't much like the Prince - so present only some of what he does to the media. His speeches on the oppression of Christians rarely get any publicity.
The Prince is a devout Christian, leaning towards the Greek Orthodox faith of his father's family. Again, this is not a secret, but the press rarely talks about it and as most people only get their knowledge of the Prince from the media, they are not seeing anything close to a fair picture.
Why do you think King George V or King George VI, for instance, could be classed as ‘extreme liberals’?
IKR?
So, proud-American-not-living-in-America, how many Exocets have you decoyed?
E.g. there was the fuss over HRH Charles’ passing mention of Mohammed in his ‘Thought for the Day’ in December 2016—499 words, and they focus on 32 of them.
Republics v. monarchies:
GK Chesterton’s famous epigram goes: ‘When a man stops believing in God, he doesn’t then believe in nothing, he believes in anything’ (and the truth of that can be seen in people turning to Buddhism, Islam, and increasingly their political beliefs become quasi-religions). Perhaps we can say similarly about republics: ‘When a country ceases being a kingdom, its people then are not without kings, but make anybody king.’
Mark Steyn has noted the evolution of US political dynasties, with George H.W. Bush (41) succeeded by his son George W. (43) who was nearly succeeded by his brother ¡Jeb!, and Bill Clinton (42) succeeded by his wife Hillary as Democratic POTUS candidate.
Say what you like about actual monarchy but at least you get a non-hereditary political class: this may seem incredible to Americans but neither Canada’s Stephen Harper, Australia’s Tony Abbott, New Zealand’s John Key nor Britain’s David Cameron is the previous Prime Minister’s brother or wife.Mark wrote that in 2014 and we now have the Clintons’ daughter Chelsea being discussed as a future candidate along with Michelle Obama, and Ivanka Trump for 2024. The US political system seems increasingly incestuous.
Mark has also written about the arrogance and entitlement of US politicians, particularly presidents, which stand in stark contrast to the humility of our royals. Here is an article from 2012:
[Obama] and his family are about to jet off on their Christmas vacation to watch America slide off the fiscal cliff from the luxury beach resort of Kailua. The cost to taxpayers of flying one man, his wife, two daughters, and a dog to Hawaii is estimated at $3,639,622. For purposes of comparison, the total bill for flying the entire royal family (Queen, princes, dukes, the works) around the world for a year is £4.7 million—or about enough for two Obama vacations. …Nor can it be dismissed as Democratic Party excess as from the same article:
In his recent book Presidential Perks Gone Royal, Robert Keith Gray, a former Eisenhower staffer, revealed that last year the U.S. presidency cost American taxpayers $1.4 billion. Over the same period, the entire royal family cost British taxpayers about $57 million. There’s nothing “royal” about the current level of “presidential perks”: The Obama family costs taxpayers more than every European royal house put together.
In 2003, the advance team for President Bush informed Buckingham Palace that he would only be able to stay there if they took out all the windows and replaced them with blast-proof glass. The Queen, keeping a straight face, politely refused, and the president was forced to spend three nights in an insecure palace.
Returning to matters home, given that the Crown in Scotland runs its estates at a profit, which is infinitely more than can be said for Holyrood—rather than abolishing Holyrood and restoring direct rule by Westminster, how about we abolish Holyrood and restore direct rule by Her Maj? I’d vote for it.
“The Crown” is a terrific series on Queen Elizabeth. British shows are the best in quality and production.
This topic was posted , thanks iowamark.
[snip] Sir Christopher Geidt, the Queen’s private secretary, left his post in July after complaints by the Prince of Wales and his brother, the Duke of York, sources have revealed now... Royal sources said that the prince’s staff were keen to “accelerate” plans to increase his involvement in key royal events by the time he reached 70 in November next year. The plans are referred to in some circles as “Project 70”... Clarence House, the official residence of Prince Charles, has denied the existence of Project 70 and maintains that the prince has never demanded a more prominent role for himself... Sir Christopher, 56, denies that he was forced out but is said to feel bruised over his treatment and to think that the Queen failed to support him... However, he is said to have infuriated Charles after a speech he gave to 500 royal staff in May. Announcing the retirement of the Duke of Edinburgh from public life, Sir Christopher called for the royal households to unite in support of the Queen. [/snip]
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