wonder if there's a Vegas over/under line?
Posted on 05/19/2018 2:27:31 PM PDT by davikkm
(AFP) — Prince Harry and his bride Meghan Markle will be known as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex after their wedding on Saturday, Buckingham Palace announced just hours before the ceremony. “The Queen has today been pleased to confer a dukedom on Prince Henry of Wales. His titles will be Duke of Sussex, Earl of Dumbarton and Baron Kilkeel,” it said in a statement.
“Prince Harry thus becomes His Royal Highness The Duke of Sussex, and Ms. Meghan Markle on marriage will become Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Sussex.”
A dukedom is the highest rank in the British peerage. It is traditional to give royal sons titles reflecting the three historic realms — England, Scotland and Ireland — that made up the United Kingdom.
Hours before his wedding in 2011, Prince William, Harry’s brother and best man, became the Duke of Cambridge, Earl of Strathearn and Baron Carrickfergus.
Sussex is a historic county on the southeast English coast, with a population of around 1.6 million. The name derives from the South Saxons. Its main city is the hip seaside resort city of Brighton.
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> Whenever I witness the silly British obsession with “royal titles”... <
What I find interesting is that most of these silly titles mean nothing, absolutely nothing. So you’re the Duke of Sussex. You have no control of Sussex, no special powers in Sussex.
Oh, I take that back. Maybe you get to cut the ribbon when a new store opens in Sussex.
That might have closed the deal
This is true enough, but to watch my Irish friends on Facebook and their reactions to the royal wedding, it has been worth the price of admission. Most of them are eerily silent today or they are poo-pooing the entire event.
wonder if there's a Vegas over/under line?
Now, if they had included Lizzy II using a gold scepter on Harry’s head while conferring these nonsense titles, 50mm would have tuned in, but just for the scepter part.
> Most of them (Irish) are eerily silent today or they are poo-pooing the entire event. <
As well they should. The British brought nothing but misery to Ireland.
See post 27.
This picture makes me recall some story from a few years ago when some guy married this beautiful woman. When they had a kid it was ugly as hell. He found out the wife had a whole lot of plastic surgery and she was ugly as hell prior to the surgery.
He was so pissed he divorced her.
Clear case of cultural appropriation!
LOL...great speculations.
Ireland is in the United Kingdom now?
(ha ha! Ulster, Northern Ireland maybe.... But Ireland in UK now? this will come as a surprise to at least a few Irishmen of the older generation anyway)
or am I overlooking something maybe????????
Kilkeel is in Northern Ireland, in County Down. It is has Unionist leanings.
See post 35.
THANK YOU. yes, i figured that ... thanks thanks...
(I was just reacting to the article text itself.....
possibly i reacted a bit too quickly? but anyway.... the wording that triggered my inquiry was...
“titles reflecting the three historic realms — England, Scotland and Ireland — that made up the United Kingdom.”
seemed a bit imprecise, maybe not...
anyway its fine with me...
thanks!
It was - up until what, 1927?
The blue with white diagonals on the Union Jack is the cross of St. Patrick. White with red plus = cross of St. George (England), White with red diagonals = cross of St. Andrew (Scotland).
Do they ever run out of places to be Dukes of? What if someone wants to be a Duke of someplace else, like Duke of Earl, or Duke of Entenmanns?
got it, THANKS!
and the article’s sentence DID say...”traditionally MADE up” so it was carefully in the PAST tense...making it more accurate than it sounded on first blush
got it!
thanks
very much
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