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Your English Queen celebrates her Golden Jubilee next week. Whilst history is nothing but a catalogue if treachery on your part - I think yon Lizzie has done a fair job and I would not wish to appear churlish on her big day. The Jura will be opened at 6 p.m. on Monday next aboard the vessel Claymore. I will be pleased to receive any of you English buggers and my splendid fellow countrymen to drink a toast to Her Majesty...
and of course - The Prince over the Water.

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Get yer facts richt

This yin's a German. But as a Scot I'd drink anything to anything anyway and I've always liked a bit of Battenburg!
 
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Apologies

Sorry can't make it, praps you could send a bottle of your favourite tipple down to Somerset, would be delighted to join your toast from afar!

Cheers,
John
 
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Re: Get yer facts richt

I'll nae drink to her man, yon's anither furreigner...is he nae a greek..........
 
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A catalogue of treachery? harumph harumph. Maellus Hiberniae had you lot taped, and I'll think you'll find that Mary had what was coming to her with the naughty schemes, no matter the deal twixt Liz and James of Scotland. However, after doing nothing much except re-writing the bible, James passed to C1, who decided that he had a divine right to govern as he liked. A little local difficulty ensued, son C2 shagged everything in sight, and James 2 was catholic despite the ban on Popery. Instead of more disastrous kilties, we eventually went and got a german manager, whipped the scotties 2-0 in the eighteenth century and there's been a-sulking in the glens ever since.

.....but today, I found myself in central London, at the Queen's Gallery, at the nagquest (of course it's a real word!) of my wife. Total crap! I have a flat nearby, and took bicycles. Ooh, you can't chain bicycles here, there might be a bomb in them, say the drippy ladies at the door. Eh? T'wd be a flimsy bomb. And no mobile phones. And there are no toilets in the new building you must walk half a mile, and isn't it kind of the queen to let the plebs see her jools? Oh, and there's no tickets cos it's all by reservation. And there hardly any tickets anyway cos americans with 5 arses doiwn their fronts have pre-booked, and the rest of the space is taken up by security guards. Gits!

So! Now we have Elizabeth of Saxe-Coburg Gotha (renamed to a nice-sounding place near Slough) and govt which is a bunch of ...scots! And the queen is a right sourpuss, allowing her boat to be carted off to Edinburgh. Charles is a weed, none of them sail or even go near a boat, the whole lot of them doing crap things like picnics in Balmoral. Seems to me yerv got the whole place by stealth...tho still unsure why the Angles didn't originally head south instead of east.

Not sure where this gets us, cept I will be o'er the water during the Jubilee, ranting, probably... in a French registered Italian-built and german-engined boat drinking scandinavian lager with south-african-born wife.

I suspect nothing much will have changed by the time I get back, and blame you personally, so kindly stop marking and get marching! You should easily be able to raise an army on a march south (how did they do that, exactly?) and your kilty mob will be seen as some street festival, and have the place surrounded. Claymore treatment to anyone with pretence of governing please, and then kindly leave the wild wildernesses of the built-up south east with tax-free existence and a burgeoning and more lively recent history, with added gore which is just bound to go down a storm with more affluent and good-looking tourists.

send me that drink immediately!
 
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Battenburg ? Surely that should now be Mountbatten.
 
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Re: x-bred! 9th legionnaires small hairy cows

I thought P-Anne put the "Royal" in Royal Yachting Asocc. So at least one of 'em looked at a boat

Wha'dya mean "I'm always playing with this engine" its the only way to get it to run!
 
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... and the Royal Corinthian Yacht Club. They seemingly had a choice of HRH or the Sultan of Brunei. Just think of the club's finances if they'd chosen the latter.
 
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Re: x-bred! 9th legionnaires small hairy cows

The 9th would be the Hispana.
The hairy cows is no way to speak of a nations ladies - well, not all of them.
A flat near the Queens gallery indeed. Slipped that one in nicely - such affluence and yet only using pushbikes - or was it the drivers day off?
Wee Annie has a boat - keeps it in Scotland!
So you want us to be revolting? - Well we'd need Mel Gibson for that and I'm not sure he's around just now.
South African Wife - is she one of those DeBeers and is that how the Bradfud Lad done good?

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I reckon I've got a better claim to the throne of Britain than this lot!!!


George V had assumed the name Windsor as a sound English name, arising from the discovery that Edward III had called himself Edward of Windsor .


From George 1 to William IV the Kings of England were clearly members of the House of Hanover. When Victoria, the niece of William IV came to the throne and married Prince Albert, the matter of a correct nomenclature was more complicated. Prince Albert had two names, his family name, Wettin and his House name of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, both attributed as German, and Victoria and Albert’s descendants bore his names.


George V was therefore of the Houses of Hanover and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. He was to marry Mary, Princess of the House of Teck and he was related to the highest German nobility. His Court was full of naturalised cousins from Germany and Denmark, bearing names like Gleichen, Schleswig-Holstein and Battenburg.


The great camouflage operation that went on prior to 1939, saw Saxe-Coburg-Gotha become the House of Windsor. The Battenbergs became Mountbatten, the Tecks became Cambridges and Count Gleichen for some reason became just Lord Gleichen and as Lacey says, 'The Schleswig-Holsteins solved the problem by dying out.' (ibid). These were elderly princesses who became known as Helena Victoria and Mary Louise of no house, until they died.


Lacey says that: the Kaiser for once had the last word. When he heard of these contortions by his relatives, he remarked that he was looking forward to the next performance of the Merry Wives of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. (ibid).


Lord Louis Mountbatten was the son of German born Louis Battenburg, grandson of Queen Victoria, who became First Lord of the Admiralty at the outbreak of the First World War. Even though Louis Battenburg had won his rank on merit, after forty-six years of distinguished service with the Royal Navy, he was compelled to resign three months after hostilities started with Germany in 1914, because of public outcry over his German origins. The Royal family suffered even more bitter attacks. Lord Louis Mountbatten like George VI was one of the great grand-children of Queen Victoria. His uncle was Czar Nicholas II (He was called Dickie ostensibly as a differentiation from Nicky, (Uncle Nicky) for Nicholas was his last name).


Elizabeth II, daughter of George VI is legitimately Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, as well as heir to the line of the English kings. Charles inherits not only these lines and claims, but from his father he inherits other indirect and even 'bluer' lineages.


Prince Phillip of Greece technically had no Greek blood in his veins, he was of the Danish Royal House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg. This family has held sway through eighteen kings of Denmark and has supplied one king to Norway, four to Sweden, six to Greece, seven czars to Russia and at the same time provided Queen consorts for the kings of Britain, Germany and Rumania.


Prince Phillip’s cousin was Queen Alexandria of Yugoslavia. His long and impressive pedigree digresses to include figures of legend such as Henry Percy (or Henry Hotspur), Earl of Northumberland and traces itself back to Charlemagne.
 
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