Re: OT: Royalty talk

[John Payne <john () sackheads org>]

On May 7, 2007, at 2:34 PM, Brian Loe wrote:

> This makes it even more interesting to me - and especially so now that
> my wife and I are hooked on that "Tutors" show on Showtime. In it, the
> queen is The Queen even though she was only a Spanish princess before
> marrying The King of England (good ol' Henry VIII). Also, this Henry

Queen consort (the "consort" bit is usually not verbalised, in the  
same way as we just refer to Prince Philip as such and not, Prince  
consort Philip or whatever)

> was a Tudor and wasn't he the one that formed the Church of England?

The English crown has past through many families, however during the  
time around the Oranges and James II (?) an agreement was drawn up to  
keep Roman Catholics out of the crown, and keep it within one  
"family" - those that can trace their descent to Sofia of  
Hannover.... (and were born to married parents to avoid the whole  
"yes, really, I'm the illegitimate son of your grandfather, so *I*  
should be king!" debacles).



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