Duke and Duchess of Cambridge Have a Son!
By: J Boyle - 3rd August 2013 at 12:50
For better or worse, the monarchy is one of the things that makes the UK…well, the UK. Rather like pubs, Jags, 18/19th century costume dramas, class envy/resentment and the like. Without it (and all the other bits) the UK becomes just another EU placeholder…of no particular identity.
By: charliehunt - 3rd August 2013 at 10:53
Are there any or many? I would certainly favour retention of the monarchy but would prefer it skipped a generation when the Queen dies. Her great success is in part due to her complete neutrality, a characteristic not shared by her son.
Whether or not we are still a united kingdom with a sovereign in fifty plus years time I am not sure. If we remain part of the EU in its faltering political destiny the answer will be no.
By: Moggy C - 3rd August 2013 at 09:17
A question for the republicans here.
Without the monarchy there would be a role for a head of state – President if you will.
Who would this be, how would they be found and appointed?
Moggy
By: Flying_Pencil - 3rd August 2013 at 02:18
Congrats!
I hope he loves airplanes like the rest of us, and more then his dad!! 😀 😀 😀
By: Edgar Brooks - 31st July 2013 at 14:20
Living “down-under”, I don’t really care but, GEORGE!!!!! Guess HM got her way again this time.
Just as she stopped her son from risking his life in the Falklands, and her grandson risking his in Afghanistan? I think your vision of the interfering old matriarch is just a little wide of the mark.
By: charliehunt - 31st July 2013 at 09:37
Indeed!!:eagerness:
By: trumper - 31st July 2013 at 08:58
My neighbours basset hound is called George ,but you will never beat this George
By: Deskpilot - 31st July 2013 at 03:59
Living “down-under”, I don’t really care but, GEORGE!!!!! Guess HM got her way again this time. Kate must be gutted.
By: charliehunt - 30th July 2013 at 10:51
[QUOTE=mrtotty;2048845 I would hope that come the time he is to be crowned, we will have become a republic a long time since.
I can’t see it, though.[/QUOTE]
Not sure about that but I really don’t care and was relieved to have missed it all whilst on holiday. Woman gives birth – amazing!!:stupid:
By: paul178 - 26th July 2013 at 21:18
I predicted a circus Moggy.
Quick get you wallet out before they are all gone.They do not ship to the UK so perhaps one of our American friends will send you one!
By: Lindermyer - 26th July 2013 at 17:31
have to be Louis 2nd
We had a Louis 1 (for about 2 months) some time around the magna carta
By: Moggy C - 26th July 2013 at 08:53
I’d guess around 50% of people predicted a girl
By: steven_wh - 25th July 2013 at 21:15
George Alexander Louis, the initials spell GAL. I wonder if the choice of names reflects a subconscious expectation of the birth of a girl, as predicted by many?
Steven
By: Creaking Door - 25th July 2013 at 10:24
King Louis I?
By: Edgar Brooks - 25th July 2013 at 07:25
Not necessarily…..the last King George we had was christened Albert!
Albert Frederick Arthur George, actually, and there’s no law which says you have to use your first Christian name.
By: Moggy C - 25th July 2013 at 07:12
Rips up his William Hill betting slip for ‘Kevin’
😡
By: J Boyle - 25th July 2013 at 04:18
Some of the pics I’ve seen with his face screwed up, he looked more a Yoda than a Joffrey.
All babies look like Churchill as well.
By: TonyT - 25th July 2013 at 00:14
I was hoping they’d name him Joffrey.
Some of the pics I’ve seen with his face screwed up, he looked more a Yoda than a Joffrey.
By: Creaking Door - 25th July 2013 at 00:07
Not necessarily…..the last King George we had was christened Albert!
By: J Boyle - 24th July 2013 at 19:02
He’ll be King George the VII (I guess…not that I’m likely to be here when he gets the throne in 50 years).
I was hoping they’d name him Joffrey.
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