Never said that... She has friends there to in thats the general opinion in the circles she is around...
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Never said that... She has friends there to in thats the general opinion in the circles she is around...
That's so lovely
Keyser Soze
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I will not support his Patreon
I really hope you did.
toddhunter
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How does this work in practice?
Queen - Let's have dinner.
Phillip - Nope, fuck off, done with that.
Queen - Let's have dinner.
Phillip - Nope, fuck off, done with that.
PJV3
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He's just giving the peasants a miss.
efyu_lemonardo
May I have a cookie?
Where is this from?
This is the hardest I've laughed at a GAF post in a while. Thank you.
da fuq?
RoadHazard
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EMERGENCY, RED ALERT, GATHER THE PEOPLE
THE DUKE IS RETIRING
...ok.
THE DUKE IS RETIRING
...ok.
To be replaced by Akebono?
Deaf Spacker
Memb
Top Gear, maybe?
It was a dodge commercial.
Isn't your whole country basically a ship, since it's floating in the Atlantic and has a sovereign who can perform weddings?
I guess it's technically a boat, because of the mast thing. So fair enough.
I see. Thanks.
Triggerhappytel
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I believe if the man is in line for the throne he becomes the king and his wife the queen, but when it's a woman in line for the throne she is the queen and her husband the prince. I think this is because king is the 'higher rank' so to speak, and thus if the queen is the one of royal blood she cannot be outranked.
That's a clumsy way of describing it, but I think that's how it works.
Oh this is right, forgive my ignorance. Makes sense.
Edit: well seems I wasn't far off. The wife of a King is also a Queen Consort, which means not a queen queen. That's different to most monarchies where each spouse has the same power, or at least in paper.
So if a queen dies but his husband doesn't he doesn't get crowned King if he wants to? What if they're childrenless? What if the successor is a toddler? So many questions.
you heard this on Doctor Who but it's bullshit. source: I'm not English but telling bullshit from reality is quite easy is you don't stop at TV shows.
It goes to the eldest son, if there is no son, then the daughter.
Not sure if there have ever been any childless monarchs
Seems like a waste tbh. So when do new bloodlines begin?
Maybe you guys could have sort of game show where aristocratic houses compete for the throne of GB. 'Game of Thrones' is already taken, though.
John_Videogames
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There have been loads:
King Edward VIII (succeeded by his brother, George VI)
Queen Anne (succeeded by the nearest poor sod we could find who wasn't a Catholic)
Mary and William (succeeded by the nearest poor sod we could find who was a Catholic)
and a pile of Tudors including Lizzie Prime.
Elizabeth the first and her siblings
There's a well established line of succession. It's definitely not the husband who takes over if the Queen dies.
Look up the line of succession on Wikipedia.
IdreamofHIME
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No. The Queen's mother lived for 50 years after the King died, but she stopped being Queen the moment​ he died.
If a child becomes monarch, then a regent will be placed in charge until the child comes of age.
This shit had been laid down for centuries, there's no confusion. The line of succession is clear unless there's a King Ralph-esqe accident.
Cheers, been a long long time since I did the monarchy at school!
Infinite_Daremo
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haha. This post puts every job into perspective.
PJV3
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Didn't Cameron update the rules in nod to the modern world, it's just the eldest child regardless of naughty bits.
Hippopuncher12
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You know what....that is fine let's do it. For Queen and Country or something.
frankie_baby
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They did but we are at least 3 monarchs away from that actually making a difference
Ninja Scooter
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Can anyone kill the king/queen to become king/queen themselves like in Game of Thrones?
PJV3
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Ah that was it, it was a kind of post dated rule applying to William and Kate's offspring onwards.
Emerson
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Yes, theoretically a third party could declare war on the UK, kill the royal family, and claim the throne for themselves. Typically you'd have to have some sort of claim on the throne, however tenuous. It wouldn't go over to well on the international stage, but this is exactly what happened many times in history.
Earthbound64
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Seriously, the way some people are posting, it's like they think this hasn't been figured out or planned for, and that the kingdom would be in some "Oops. What do we do now?" situation.
As said, the Line of Succession is laid out hundreds of people deep.
This ridiculous commercial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-3HEyR-c3M
That's not how most monarchies work. There's generally only one monarch at a time, and their spouse is called a consort. In the British system, a male monarch is a King and his wife is the Queen consort, but is usually just called the Queen. A female monarch is called the Queen (or sometimes "Queen regnant" for clarity) and her husband is called the Prince consort. Joint-monarchies between a husband and a wife are pretty rare. IIRC the only one in British history was William and Mary in the 17th century.
EDIT: actually, there was Philip and (a different) Mary in the 16th century as well. At that time, the rules surrounding female monarchs were different and if one got married then her husband became King jure uxoris (by right of his wife). This hasn't been the case in Britain for a long time, though.
This is true, but oldest child of each of the next three generations (Charles, William, and George) are all male anyway, so the likelihood of there being another Queen regnant in the near future is pretty slim.
lastplayed
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Well she did have a good go at it, 17 pregnancies in total.
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