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kenny chaos · 29-04-2011, 14:00

I wore only my best nylons to watch the wedding, then fell asleep before it started.

Kenny

SaltyMonkey · 29-04-2011, 15:02

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Originally Posted by Blue Stocking

My knee-jerk response was to show the irrelevency, IMHO, of genetic background to the subject of this particular thread.
Bottom line is they qualify, by birth or selection, to be there.

to the couple.

A crime is a crime is a crime...there is no absolute or relativity in the equation to compare to.

Long live the Celts...and Obama-celt(?)...and all cartwheelers everywhere!!!

YAY!

SaltyMonkey · 29-04-2011, 16:03

Kate. Come plant a wet one on ol' SaltyMonkey's lips! I am royalty too!

yAY!

All kidding aside, the pressure must have been mind blowing for them today. how they survived. wow.

**boatman61** · 29-04-2011, 17:30

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Originally Posted by SaltyMonkey

To partition people into a class structure reeks of Edwardian self righteousness and why the French, American, and Russian Revolutions took their course, thank God. There's no place for words like "commoners" in todays language, and who says we need any lessons?

As for marginalizing the subject of aristocracy by comparisons to world events, saying one is better than the other, rather than judging each on its own individualistic merits, one might also allude (at the time) that Hitlers recent election is a good thing for Germany and instills nationalistic pride to how a good german should behave when you compare it to what is going on with Syria or Libya right now. Sorry, the argument just doesn't logically work for me.

However, this video sort of captures the proper feeling:

Verger cartwheels in abbey after wedding

People in glass houses should not throw stones Salty.... look at your history before you mock ours....
MalcomX Rools.................

44'cruisingcat · 29-04-2011, 17:35

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Originally Posted by Alecadi

Nope: it's just I have twice get rid of monarchs..

first when I was French and now that I'm a US citizen..hehehehe

You must be getting quite old then...

I believe a study showed that the British royal family more than pays it's way because of the tourism they generate.

zeehag · 29-04-2011, 17:43

according to my genetic lineage, i have mor e royal blood than fergie-- so i can say i dont do even family weddings..LOL... but 2 of my families are danish, one celt, one gael..LOlone stirling--funny---fergie isnt in my family tree-- they musta fudged that one gooooood for her..i DID have high tea with the remaining ladies stirling in 1971--i think the ladies have passed since, however... was a short lived line, them....LOL....
yes i CAN prove what i sed..LOL

**boatman61** · 29-04-2011, 17:51

Actually the only claim to Royalty Fergie has is on her ring finger.... left hand...

her dad was a dubious character who did a runner to Argentina....
like a lot of Germans after the war....

So yes Zee... maybe you do have a claim... if any of your ancestors came from Hanover.....

zeehag · 29-04-2011, 17:54

mine came from everywhere and i dont want the dishonor involved lol
is better having 6.66 in bank in toto and being in a sailboat ...LOL

kismet · 29-04-2011, 18:12

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Originally Posted by David_Old_Jersey

Jersey by the grace of God. British for administrative conveniance*

*which means loyalty stops once the Anglos stop throwing money at us or when the bills require payment (let us know how that goes ) - it's grrrrrreat being an immigrant

Irish by birth, Brit passport by persistent military occupation of Ulster. The British should get over it and understand..remember the Normans.

**Hudson Force** · 29-04-2011, 18:25

Actually, I'm aware of my own family's lineage as having a long history. We migrated first out of the horn of Africa and then northwest from the area of the Tigres and Euphrates about 100,000 years ago. Some of you might be distant cousins!

Capn Morgan · 29-04-2011, 18:25

The whole point of being British and the Monarchy is that if we had to explain, you wouldn't understand.

kismet · 29-04-2011, 18:29

I emigrated in 1956 and was joined by a group, on the train from Halifax N.S. to Toronto, by a group of people escaping the invasion of Hungary by the Soviets..my how occupying army's always act the same.

**boatman61** · 29-04-2011, 18:31

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Originally Posted by kismet

Irish by birth, Brit passport by persistent military occupation of Ulster. The British should get over it and understand..remember the Normans.

Thats the problem with the Irish.... remember the Normans... yup... vaguely... we just bred them in and now we're all one...
Funny thing about NI... every election wants to stay Brit.... except the Real IRA....
and 4th generation US Irish Pete....lol
some folks just love chips... no guys ... not 'Freedom Fries'....
ROLF... and how sad is that

**boatman61** · 29-04-2011, 18:37

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Originally Posted by kismet

my how occupying army's always act the same.

Funny enough a friend of mine who's an Afghan says the same thing.... but then when ones a ex Colonial who's been part of the Empire one does have strange friends...