Mostrov wrote:Fortunately MI6 saw to that. It
would be embarrassing to have an Arab, much less a Bavarian, in the line of succession.
Meh, the Queen is supposedly descended from the Prophet Mohammed (via an Andalusian Arab noblewoman who married into one of the Christian Spanish royal families) anyway...
... and there was Bavarian ancestry in the Wittelsbach dynasty of the Palatinate (to which our King George I's maternal grandfather belonged, and another branch of which were actually Kings
of Bavaria until just after WW1), too.
Mostrov wrote:Vassenor wrote:Pretty sure if he and Diana had had kids they wouldn't have been in line.
I know it may be hard to comprehend for you, but that was what was known as a joke. Really, it shows that the Royal's company could be bought, rather than airs of exclusivity, although the transfer between money
Risottia wrote:You certainly aren't familiar with the Church of England's history if you are claiming that historically it was "Catholic-Light", it was thoroughly Protestant and divorce was canonically forbidden until 2002. It was much closer to Calvinism and the Protestant churches of Northern Europe until the 20th Century and the rise of the Tractarianism (the Public Worship Regulation Act and the associated controversies is a good start if you are interested in this sort of thing), which changed into the Church you are more familiar with today. The once ubiquity of pew-boxes until the 19th century should be testament to this.
Under Henry VIII it
started as mainly "Catholic but no longer run from Rome", under Edward VI (& his regents) it was closer to Calvinism but still with bishops, under Elizabeth it was basically "Don't upset the Queen" with how far the differing strands were accepted varying over time & locally (due in part to events such as whether there were currently open hostilities with a Roman Catholic power), under James it was mixed (because although he'd mainly been raised Calvinist he liked more royal control than the Presbyterians were happy with), under both Charles I and Charles II there was definitely an official preference for a more Catholic & less Calvinist approach, and it was really only when old-school 'Catholic' Anglicanism became seen as a potential sign of
Jacobite tendencies that the Crown and bishops became more firmly Protestant.
And note that even the more clearly Protestant side of Anglicanism became less 'Calvinist' in nature once various Calvinist groups had become established as independent & rival sects during the 17th century... In the earlier decades there was also an 'Arminian' strain, and more recently its been close enough to Lutheranism for the Church of England and
some Lutheran churches to enter into a state of "full communion" with each other (even though the Church of England is
also in full communion with at least some of the 'Old Catholic' churches as well)!
Posted: Wed May 22, 2019 4:40 am