God save the queen

[Madner Kami]

Trivia- the Seven Years War, the American Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, World War 1 and World War 2 all happened when a George was on the British throne.

So...keep an eye on the young Prince.

One war caused by George wanting to protect his colonists.
One war caused, because George wanted said colonies to pay for the war that was fought on their behalf.
One war caused, because the war George fought to pay for the war George fought on behalf of the colonists failed.
One war caused because of the war that George fought because of the war he fought to pay for the war he fought on behalf of the colonists failed.
One war caused by the war that George was forced to fight as a result of the war he fought which was caused by the war he fought because the colonists refused to pay for the war he fought on behalf of the colonists.

George may be the obvious common thing, but it ultimately was all caused by US-americans and them not paying their goddamn fucking taxes! So if you don't want another war involving George, make the american oligarchs pay their damn share of the taxes!

Oh and speaking of oligarchs...

Why King Charles won't have to pay inheritance tax on Duchy of Lancaster estate

[...]

King Charles III can avoid paying millions in inheritance tax on the Duchy of Lancaster estate due to an old rule designed to protect the Royal Family’s wealth.

His Majesty automatically inherited the estate - worth over £652m - following the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II last week.

Under UK law, inheritance tax is paid at 40% if you leave assets valued above a certain threshold to your loved ones after you die.

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[clearspira]

Oooh, Prince Harry has a frosty relationship with his family. This funeral proves so much about what is happening behind closed doors. The Royals barely looked at him. And even though he is pretty much the only actual war hero among them for fighting in Afghanistan (and Prince Andrew for fighting in the Falklands for that matter) both of them were refused the right to wear their uniforms, having to march alongside everyone else in their costume jewellery.

There is also footage apparently of Harry batting away Meghan's hand but I haven't seen it.

[Jonathan101]

Camilla and Prince Andrew
It was obvious that other senior royals, notably Prince Andrew, did not want Camilla around either back then. Prince Charles and Andrew have rarely got on well together, except for a short time while they were both married. This is partly because there is usually contention between the first and second in line of the succession; he was, after all, the “spare” until Prince William’s birth. Most of all King Charles and Prince Andrew have very different personalities, values and approaches to life.

Queen Elizabeth asked several people for advice on the matter of Prince Charles marrying Camilla, including Prince Andrew. She had always had a soft spot for Andrew, who seems to have had a way of persuading her to do what he wanted. This time, a senior insider told me, he had a treacherous request. “He tried to persuade the Queen to block Charles marrying Camilla by being quite poisonous, mean, unhelpful and very nasty about Camilla.” His claims included that she was insufficiently aristocratic and that she was not to be trusted.

The same individual went on to say that “when Diana was alive, through her friendship with Andrew’s wife Sarah, [Duchess of York] she plotted with Andrew to try to push Prince Charles aside so Prince Andrew could become Regent to Prince William, who was then a teenager.

“They were dark and strange times, where paranoia became reality, and this was a worry. Andrew lobbied very hard with the hope that Charles would not become king when his mother died, and that William would wear the crown.

“His behaviour was very, very negative and extremely unpleasant to Queen [Elizabeth], who disagreed. I was told it was one of the rare occasions he didn’t get his way.

“Nonetheless, he was apparently very angry that he couldn't rule the country in some way. He remained so hostile to Camilla’s emergence and acceptance that it’s doubtful it has ever been forgiven.”

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/prince-andrew ... 00719.html

"Royal insider" claims that Prince Andrew wanted to push Charles aside when William was a boy in the hopes that he, Andrew, might rule as Regent...somehow.

Source is not exactly unbiased, but this would be kind of amusing if it was true in a dark sort of way, Andrew being like a more pathetic Disney villain.

[Madner Kami]

Is the source certain, s/he got this right? Reading "Andrew" and "a boy" in the same sentence doesn't lead the expectation to regency...

[McAvoy]

Oooh, Prince Harry has a frosty relationship with his family. This funeral proves so much about what is happening behind closed doors. The Royals barely looked at him. And even though he is pretty much the only actual war hero among them for fighting in Afghanistan (and Prince Andrew for fighting in the Falklands for that matter) both of them were refused the right to wear their uniforms, having to march alongside everyone else in their costume jewellery.

There is also footage apparently of Harry batting away Meghan's hand but I haven't seen it.

I am definitely not on Markle's side but this sort of overanalysis on body behavior that says there might be something brewing between Meghan and Henry is getting a bit thin.

Yeah sure juicy gossip for the papers.

[McAvoy]

So the official cause of death is... Old age.

Elsewhere scientists have confirmed that fire is indeed hot.

[Riedquat]

So the official cause of death is... Old age.

Elsewhere scientists have confirmed that fire is indeed hot.

No-one really dies of old age though. People often die of bits of the body packing up that tends to happen when you get old, but "old age" implies "right, that's your time up, fall over dead now." I'm surprised it's legal to put that on a death certificate.

[hammerofglass]

It sounds better than "so much of her system was worn out we didn't know how she was still alive in the first place so hell if we know what changed", which is what that usually means.

[clearspira]

It was the exhaustion of swearing in Liz Truss, I reckon. Not an insult to Truss btw, but dying in bed two days later? I doubt that's a coincidence.

[Draco Dracul]

So the official cause of death is... Old age.

Elsewhere scientists have confirmed that fire is indeed hot.

No-one really dies of old age though. People often die of bits of the body packing up that tends to happen when you get old, but "old age" implies "right, that's your time up, fall over dead now." I'm surprised it's legal to put that on a death certificate.

I know it's not legal to put as a cause of death in the US.