Re: Happy Birthday Queen Elizabeth!
At least one Tree Killing Colonial knows his place :D
Happy Birthday your majesty, I hope you rule over us as long as your life allows...your son, i cannot hope the same thing...
Who else here thinks William will make a much better king than Charles?
When I was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown,
The dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb...
Proud Supporter of the Gahzette
Re: Happy Birthday Queen Elizabeth!
I don't think he will make a better King, but he would make a more popular King. Charles has proven he cares about the country and has contributed towards it considerably, what with the Prince's Trust, his model village, and many others. He is unpopular with the media, though, who seem to often put what he says in a bad light, such as with his comments on schools not so long ago, which seemed to say that children are made to believe that they can achieve more than they are actually able while the tabloids declared he said something like poor children should not be allowed to achieve as well as middle- and upper- class children...
Last edited by Duke Malcolm; 04-21-2006 at 20:38.
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It was not theirs to make reply,
It was theirs but to do or die.
-The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Wherever this stone shall lie, the King of the Scots shall rule"
-Prophecy of the Stone of Destiny
"For God, For King and country, For loved ones home and Empire, For the sacred cause of justice, and The freedom of the world, They buried him among the kings because he, Had done good toward God and toward his house."
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Re: Happy Birthday Queen Elizabeth!
This viewpoint always amuses me, as does the 'presidents bad, monarchs good' argument.Originally Posted by Ianofsmeg16
The UK has been blessed with an extraordinary woman as head of state for the past 60 years. Charles is unfavoured by the media and much of the populace, largely it seems, because he fell out with his beautiful wife. William appears to be the people's choice because he looks good in the papers.
EXCEPT the people don't get to choose their head of state. If the heir to the throne is a drunk or drooling idiot, a wastrel or thug, they get to be monarch whether their subjects like it or not. History shows that there have been many great presidents, and many awful ones - and the same goes for monarchs. But you can't get rid of the awful monarch save by civil war or revolution.
Remember, if it hadn't been for an accident of protocol, the UK should have had the spineless Nazi sympathiser Edward VIII on the throne and whatever monstrosity of a child he might have had following on instead of Elizabeth. And almost certainly have become a happy Republic by now.
If you get Charles, that's because that's the way it works.
'You don't vote for kings' Dennis the Peasant.
"If there is a sin against life, it consists not so much in despairing as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this one."
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