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10-17-2018, 02:31 PM | #1 |
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Oh. My. God. I mean, O. M. G!!!!
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Megan Markle finally put her hair in a ponytail! THANK GOD. I hope I live long enough to one day give a flying rat fuck what Megan Markle says or does. Get out of my news headlines, you fucking royal footnote.
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10-17-2018, 04:27 PM | #2 |
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The only thing I've found interesting about the thing so far: Megan Markle's baby will be a U.S. citizen and eligible to be both President and Queen/King of England.
I doubt a reigning monarch could win an election here, but if Markle Jr. were elected President first, then a bomb hit Windsor Castle and took out the line of succession in one fell swoop... America could find itself written up in the history books as a brief 300-year rebellion. |
10-17-2018, 05:06 PM | #3 | |
Nearly done.
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10-18-2018, 06:34 AM | #4 | |
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10-17-2018, 04:43 PM | #5 |
I love it when a plan comes together.
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I read somewhere that being a Royal isn't an automatic birth right and it's up to the Queen to grant that status.
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10-17-2018, 04:55 PM | #6 | |
We have to go back, Kate!
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Bit difficult if she got hit with a bomb
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10-17-2018, 05:45 PM | #8 |
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Well played!
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10-17-2018, 06:05 PM | #9 | |
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10-17-2018, 06:34 PM | #10 |
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No, she wouldn't take any place in the line of succession but would still be titled 'Queen' - and of course, just like the present queen, she wouldn't be 'Queen of England' except in the same way that Mr Trump is currently the President of Texas.
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10-17-2018, 06:47 PM | #11 |
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But then why is he called Prince Philip and not King Philip? Is it because they weren't already married when she became Queen? Or are they not actually married?
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10-17-2018, 07:02 PM | #12 | |
We have to go back, Kate!
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If the monarch a a king his wife becomes queen - if the monarch is a queen her husband can only be her consort.
A king would effectively outrank the queen which would be entirely unacceptable if the queen is actually the monarch
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10-17-2018, 07:31 PM | #13 |
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Wife of a reigning king = Queen Consort
Reigning queen = Queen Regnant Apparently the husband of a reigning queen could be a King Consort, but that's not common. Bruises the male ego, perhaps.
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We have to go back, Kate!
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Queen Elizabeth is the Queen Regnant Queen Meghan would be the Queen Consort. Did not know about King Consort - though now you mention it, it does bring to mind some of the concerns EI's advisors had about her potentially marrying. I suspect King Consort is less common because a) There haven't been that many queens regnant and b) those we have had would probably have been ill at ease with a 'King', however much a consort, by their side, bearing in mind most of them would have had to prove themselves equal to a potential rival king (e.g a side step in the family tree, rather than a woman on the throne with the very real danger she could marry a risky prospect - such as a catholic/protestant and in doing so hand power to that person, because all men are kings to their wives)
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