Elizabeth II / Charles III megathread

[Bewaffnete Krafte]

I mean, really, what would have been next after the Platinum Jubilee? Platinum is like, number one. You already did Diamond.
Maybe it woulda been the Netherite Jubilee?

[The Notorious Mad Jack]

I find it rather wierd that Charles chose the title of Charles III, considering that Charles I and Charles II were both less than favorable royals. I suppose it’s up to him now to clear their names.

I think this is evidence of Charles's more modern outlook. I think he probably recognises that he'd just be called Charles by the majority of people anyways, and there isn't any point in trying to change that.

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At least she died peacefully. Thanks to the 24 hour news cycle. Unlike her grandpa, King George V, of whom the doctor injected him with lethal poison so that his death made it to the morning news instead of the less read evening news.

Dawson wrote that he acted to preserve the King's dignity, to prevent further strain on the family, and so that the King's death at 11:55 pm could be announced in the morning edition of The Times newspaper rather than "less appropriate ... evening journals".[118][120] Neither Queen Mary, who was intensely religious and might not have sanctioned euthanasia, nor the Prince of Wales was consulted.

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The doctor injected morphine with a little touch of coke - a speedball. That's the best death. Riding a cloud of euphoria straight into oblivion. Few people are so lucky as to die like King George V.

[Perikuresu]

I just remembered, Charles is half Greek! This makes me more proud of my Greek ansestry

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I'm pretty sure both the House of Windsor and the Greek royal family came from Germany

[Hiram Land]

I just remembered, Charles is half Greek! This makes me more proud of my Greek ansestry

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Ah Greece. You made Alexander and debt!
I believe the Greek part is due to Prince Phillip, right?

[Salus Maior]

I just remembered, Charles is half Greek! This makes me more proud of my Greek ansestry

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I'm pretty sure both the House of Windsor and the Greek royal family came from Germany

Denmark.

[Perikuresu]

I'm pretty sure both the House of Windsor and the Greek royal family came from Germany

Denmark.

Close enough

[Hiram Land]

I'm pretty sure both the House of Windsor and the Greek royal family came from Germany

Denmark.

Not the Windsors. They're from Saxe Cotburg and Gotha.

[Salus Maior]

Denmark.

Not the Windsors. They're from Saxe Cotburg and Gotha.

Yeah I meant the Greek royal fam.

[Northern Seleucia]

Denmark.

Not the Windsors. They're from Saxe Cotburg and Gotha.

Indeed, and they changed due to WW1 reasons.

[Hiram Land]

Not the Windsors. They're from Saxe Cotburg and Gotha.

Yeah I meant the Greek royal fam.

ahh

Not the Windsors. They're from Saxe Cotburg and Gotha.

Indeed, and they changed due to WW1 reasons.

Now that we've been peaceful with Germany for 75 odd years now, don'tcha think it's time for a change?

[Australian rePublic]

I just remembered, Charles is half Greek! This makes me more proud of my Greek ansestry

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Ah Greece. You made Alexander and debt!
I believe the Greek part is due to Prince Phillip, right?

Correct. Phillip was born in Greece

[Armeattla]

I'm pretty sure both the House of Windsor and the Greek royal family came from Germany

Denmark.

Germany.
Windsor is a Cadet Branch of House Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, which succeeded the House Hannover (a Cadet Branch of House Welfen) when Queen Victoria died.

[Hiram Land]

Denmark.

Germany.
Windsor is a Cadet Branch of House Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, which succeeded the House Hannover (a Cadet Branch of House Welfen) when Queen Victoria died.

He meant the Greeks.

[Armeattla]

Germany.
Windsor is a Cadet Branch of House Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, which succeeded the House Hannover (a Cadet Branch of House Welfen) when Queen Victoria died.

He meant the Greeks.

All lines lead back to Germany, you just need to go back long enough.

[Australian rePublic]

Germany.
Windsor is a Cadet Branch of House Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, which succeeded the House Hannover (a Cadet Branch of House Welfen) when Queen Victoria died.

He meant the Greeks.

Nope. Windsor was the Brits. Phillip was Hanoover

[Hiram Land]

He meant the Greeks.

All lines lead back to Germany, you just need to go back long enough.

no they lead to rome

[Armeattla]

All lines lead back to Germany, you just need to go back long enough.

no they lead to rome

Essentially the same thing, really.

[Ifreann]

no they lead to rome

Essentially the same thing, really.

Geromany.

[Hiram Land]

Essentially the same thing, really.

Geromany.

The history proves otehrwise

[Old Tyrannia]

Denmark.

Not the Windsors. They're from Saxe Cotburg and Gotha.

Actually the late Queen Elizabeth II was the last British monarch to be a patrilineal member of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and therefore the last monarch who would have borne that name had it not been changed to "Windsor" during the First World War. King Charles III is the first British monarch of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, although the name of the royal house remains "Windsor" by royal decree, making him one of three reigning and four living monarchs to belong to that house, the others being King Harald V of Norway, Queen Margarethe II of Denmark and King Constantine II of Greece (who is no longer a reigning monarch, Greece having become a republic in 1973). Whilst the House of Glücksburg is also of remote German origins, the King's father Prince Philip was a member of the Greek branch, which in turn was a member of the Danish royal house from which all three other branches originally stem, so it's even more of a stretch now to call the Royal Family "German" than it was under Elizabeth II.

[Zaeylia]

May Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II of House Windsor, Rest In Peace. My deepest condolences for her family and her peoples. Her rule saw the UK survive post-colonialism, The Troubles, the Cold War, The Recession, Brexit and The 2020 Crisis; yet still emerging and maintaining the status as a global power.

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Long live King Charles III of House Windsor, may His Majesty rule the realm at peace and prosperity.

[Celritannia]

i hope so

Scotland leaving the UK would be a disaster for the entire country.

[Australian rePublic]

[Perikuresu]

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You seem.... Quite awfully jolly today?

But then, gives me a perfect opportunity to talk about the future of these commonwealth realms, cause to nobody's surprise the Republic movement's starting to get some attention

I'm wagering all bets on Solomon Islands splitting off, Sogavare's sounding a bit authoritarian with the "we'll kick out any journos who criticise my links with China" and the whole delaying the election thing, I wouldn't be surprised if he wants to become SB's head of state