The Prince of Wales

[Louis VI the Fat]

I'll see your Cromwell and raise you a William of Orange. Now there's a glorious revolution if ever there was one. After centuries of British infighting, the Wars of the Woses, all the useless squabbling about popery and anti-popery and other nonsense, a Dutchman sorted out those isles and whipped them into shape.

Yes, the Dutch invasion of the British Isles was instrumental in sorting that tumultous backwater out. (The English - a people easily swayed to revolution and upheaval. )

Thankfully, the Dutch conquest (which it was just as much as an invitation) succeeded. Owing of course to the two northern trade statelets of the Netherlands and Britain being so desperate to stop Louis XIV's adventures. Alas, what were mere frivolous foreign divertissements to the Sun King, to while away lazy summer afternoons, had the rest of Europe quaking in its boots.

For which I apologize.

We should not have used Europe as a forest, its statelets mere game to the frivolous hunting parties of our nobles.

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Yes, the Dutch invasion of the British Isles was instrumental in sorting that tumultous backwater out. (The English - a people easily swayed to revolution and upheaval. )

That's so self-depreciatingly ironic I'd almost think you English.

Thankfully, the Dutch conquest (which it was just as much as an invitation) succeeded. Owing of course to the two northern trade statelets of the Netherlands and Britain being so desperate to stop Louis XIV's adventures. Alas, what were mere frivolous foreign divertissements to the Sun King, to while away lazy summer afternoons, had the rest of Europe quaking in its boots.

For which I apologize.

We should not have used Europe as a forest, its statelets mere game to the frivolous hunting parties of our nobles.

Ah, the Sun King, shame you couldn't produce more successful autocrats from the same gene-pool.