British Royal Family?
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I like the fact that Elizabeth will not step down to hand the reigns over to Charles. \n\nI would like to see it go directly from Elizabeth to William. \n\nI thought that was very cool she invited others born on the same day to share her birthday with her.
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Some are also medals (or orders of something) are part of their family history. Some are such things as orders of the Queen's Own such and such, awards they recieve as royals visiting foreign parts, and there's probably one from grandma for not embarassing her for the last three weeks or something.
1044366
The United States would go into chaos if we had a monarchy! Most people don't have a clue about how the royal families work, or Parliament, for that matter (if you are saying we should have royalty like the U.K.). To change our way way of existence as a nation to having a royal family would be a complete 180.\n\nWho would be our king and queen, anyway? Brangelina?
1025570
And exactly how does this relate to royalty?
686910
Queen Elizabeth II is the daughter of King George VI. King George VI was named Prince Albert at birth and was known to his family as 'Bertie'. After the abdication crisis, he took the name George to reflect the stability of his father, King George V's reign. \n\nThe present Queen married Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who is now Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, on November 20, 1947.
217319
some prince or princess
111917
who cares? there will be a bried court intrigue, and some cousin would emerge. Or they'll have a queen (it works for Britain, right?).
429183
I doubt it, although it's not a bad idea.\nI think modern day royals are less into being royal nowadays, and it's just not practical to be so far removed from society and clueless as to how regular people live their lives. Queen Elizabeth's younger children, Andrew and Edward, have really strayed from the typical royal routine and are fairly "normal" people. I think this trend is likely to continue in the future, which is good!\nAnyhow, as to marrying outside the royal circle, I think because these younger royals are more involved in a normal everyday style of living (as far as a royal CAN be, that is) I think the more at ease they are with so-called commoners and have more in common with them, personality-wise. Fifty years ago, NO ONE in the royal family would have considered marrying someone like Sarah Ferguson or Sophie Rhys-Jones, who worked for a living and so forth.\n\n(As for the "inbreeding" comment, royals all over the world have been inbreeding for as long as the concept of royalty has existed.)\n\nI think if the Queen had had her way, none of her children would have been allowed to marry any of the people they did. Ok, well, MAYBE Diana. ...MAYBE.
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family in some of the people u been around
296335
Technically, Britain is a constitutional monarchy... and the fact that the police and army and MPs etc have to swear allegiance to her is outrageous (the Queen is also head of the Church of England, of course, and Britain is now a secular multi-cultural country, and proud of it). Laws cannot be passed in this country without the Queen's signature. And as a previous messager said, they are anyway greedy parasites who have the IQ of an amoeba between them because they are all inbred. What right do they and the rest of the so-called aristocracy have to their wealth? Did they earn it by honest toil? Or did they steal it at the point of a sword? Let's be done with them all. Stuff them all and put them in Madame Tussauds. The wasters.
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Prince Harry of Britain :-)~
529203
Revolution? Hmmmmm, wishful thinking.\nI wish I knew the answer to this one. I think that our (UK) society has to take a giant evolutionary leap and realise that actually, the royals are not all that great and that their vast wealth could be redistributed to make better schools, hospitals, public transport.\nIs it going to happen? That's another question....
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No, Queen Victoria was the daughter of Edward, Duke of Kent, whom she bore a very strong resemblance to. \n\nThere will always be rumours about the paternity of various royal children: Prince Andrew and Prince Harry are two other examples of this and both rumours are completely false.
639301
Yes. They would find a lovely title for her and put her in with the addled Queen Mum. Charles would then ascend, unfortunately. I don't think he has the nads for it , frankly. Young William, yes.
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If its the right one, sounds like the family is into politics\n\nhttp://www.ljworld.com/art/slideshow/Inauguration/1.html
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yes.  Depending on the country you are interesred in, the royals have studiously compiled geneological tables, pedigrees, if you will.  In England, Debreet's; Germany, Almanac de Gotha; Spain, something medieval sounding;  also,  Italy, Russia, and what was once Catholic Hambsburg Austria do not correspond to the title prepecedence of contemporary England.  For example, a Russian Arch-Duke will out-rank an Italian Prince, it's more semantical/translative in nature than hierachical.   But then Queen Victoria did allow herself to become Empress of India before her daughter was crowned Empress of Prussia.  One could surmise she wanted to ride in the first coach,first.   But, yes the royality of Europe, irrespective of position is well documented and easily located on the web.
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The most accurate place to look would be a current encyclopedia, like the Encyclopedia Britannica (it is written by experts, unlike Wikipedia which is written by common people who may not know what they are talking about).\n\nHere is what the Encyclopedia Britannica says:\n\n"British royal (b. Aug. 4, 1900, London, Eng.—d. March 30, 2002, Windsor, Berkshire, Eng.), in a life that spanned three centuries, was the daughter of a Scottish nobleman, the queen consort of King George VI, the mother of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret, countess of Snowdon (q.v.), and an almost universally beloved symbol of British tradition and fortitude. Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon was the 9th child (of 10) of Claude George Bowes-Lyon, Lord Glamis and (from 1904) the 14th earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. On April 26, 1923, after a two-year courtship, she married Prince Albert, duke of York, the second son of King George V. When her shy husband was officially proclaimed King George VI on Dec. 11, 1936, following the abdication of his brother Edward VIII, she was thrust unexpectedly into the public eye. She proved to be an able consort, and her personal charm helped to cement public support for the monarchy, which had been badly damaged by the abdication. The new queen's refusal to leave London during World War II and her extensive wartime activities further endeared her to the nation, as did her reported response in September 1940 when Buckingham Palace was damaged in the Blitz: “I'm glad we've been bombed. It makes me feel I can look the East End in the face.” In 1952 the king died, and their daughter Elizabeth ascended the throne. Thereafter, the widowed Queen Mother served as an unofficial ambassador, traveling extensively until advancing age curtailed her movements. She continued to make public appearances, however, owned a string of thoroughbred racehorses, and survived several surgeries. She celebrated her 100th birthday in 2000 and attended her daughter Margaret's funeral six weeks before her own peaceful death."