...I imagine that Charles will be king in about four months. Originally Posted by the_real_Barleycorn
Nah, Queen Elizabeth will be around for another year at least. Originally Posted by Stockinglover
she might live several years longer. who knows? her mother lived to be 101. she's 94 so what if she makes it to 100? i think unless she suffers some medical event that leaves her unable to rule then she'll die as Queen and that could be years.Didn’t matter Edward didn’t have kids and Elizabeth would have been Queen, only 20 years later after he died in 1976
then Charles becomes King as he should. a lot of young "woke" types when the time comes want Charles to abdicate the throne to William. Charles should take the throne, for himself as tradition dictates. i'm also certain William doesn't want to be King anytime soon as he also accepts the fact he will be King eventually.
and all this because Edward VIII abdicated the throne and set a different line of the Windsors on the throne. Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid
Didn’t matter Edward didn’t have kids and Elizabeth would have been Queen, only 20 years later after he died in 1976 Originally Posted by StockingloverNot so cut and dried. Edward was forced to abdicate because of Wallace Simpson. If she was not in the picture then no abdication and no Wallace. Like Charles, they would have found some well-bred lady to be a brood mare for the Windsors. He was 42. Princess Maria Christina of Spain would have made a good match. She would have been 25 years old in 1936.
The broken heart syndrome is real. Amazing how many spouses die shortly after their partner. Some within days of each other. But not Queen Elizabeth. She is a tough old bag. Originally Posted by VitaManShe still has her Corgis They don’t care when she farts. She’s good.
But why the fixation on british royality? From anyone not in or from the uk. I have never understood this. Originally Posted by winn dixieI can't speak pre-Diana, but I've been operating under the assumption that Americans found her engagement to Charles to be fairytale-esque, Like a modern-day Cinderella thinking she was a commoner, when actually her father was a Viscount. She just worked a series of low-paying commoner jobs after school because she wasn't a terribly good student.