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2018-12-05 Britain

Britain’s Prince Charles determined to succeed to throne

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Posted by Fred 2018-12-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Just a feeling, but I kinda suspect his Mum would strangle him with her bare hands before that would happen.

Posted by SteveS 2018-12-05 00:56|| 2018-12-05 00:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Ah yes... prince up-chuck. The prince who married his horse.

Posted by CrazyFool 2018-12-05 01:24|| 2018-12-05 01:24|| Front Page Top

#3 ...Her Majesty isn't leaving Buckingham Palace any way except feet first, and apparently there's considerable speculation that she may be the first sitting monarch to crack 100 (She's 92 now, her mother made it to 101).

If that happens, Charles will - and hear me out - be deserving of some sympathy. At that point he'll be almost 80, and given Prince William's popularity, most people will simply be waiting for him to shuffle off this mortal coil before Wills takes over. He'll be remembered as an asterisk in British history.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2018-12-05 04:30|| 2018-12-05 04:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, he ain't exactly Bonny Prince Charlie

Posted by Cheaderhead 2018-12-05 05:16|| 2018-12-05 05:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Charlie is as thick as a plank.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-12-05 06:09|| 2018-12-05 06:09|| Front Page Top

#6 The Brits are one Labor gummint away from abolishing the monarchy. Like Brexit, they'll draw it out interminably and call it anything but what it is, but the end result is a lot of toffs suddenly at a loose end.

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-12-05 07:35|| 2018-12-05 07:35|| Front Page Top

#7 Long live the Queen!

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-12-05 08:23|| 2018-12-05 08:23|| Front Page Top

#8 It may be best if when the Queen gets ill, Charles takes a very extended holiday in a private place for the rest of his life.

Even though his sons have show some spirit in their lives, some of their recent actions are pure Charles and the line of Windsor is in serious trouble.

Posted by DarthVader 2018-12-05 08:57|| 2018-12-05 08:57|| Front Page Top

#9 The Brits are one Labor gummint away from abolishing the monarchy.

Treat them like the white farmers in South Africa?

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-12-05 09:55|| 2018-12-05 09:55|| Front Page Top

#10 white farmers

Farmers, um, farmed.

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-12-05 10:25|| 2018-12-05 10:25|| Front Page Top

#11 not being snarky - legit quesiton... are they not just figure heads now? They dont really have any control or power, so is it just a ceremonial position for tradition?

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2018-12-05 10:32|| 2018-12-05 10:32|| Front Page Top

#12 Technically Sam, the queen could disband Parliament and remove the Prime Minister. But historically when the monarchy has done that there has been Civil War.

It seems she and the others are happy with just keeping things the way they are where the royals enjoy the life of leisure without all that government and country running bollocks.

Posted by DarthVader 2018-12-05 10:43|| 2018-12-05 10:43|| Front Page Top

#13 Not sure why Prince Charles is complaining about his 70+ years paid internship.

Posted by Airandee 2018-12-05 11:33|| 2018-12-05 11:33|| Front Page Top

#14 The way things are going Charles will not become king, but rather Head Mullah.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2018-12-05 14:17|| 2018-12-05 14:17|| Front Page Top

#15 Bwahahaha....Glad to see your sense of humor has not been degraded by recent earth-shattering events, AP!

Posted by Bobby 2018-12-05 16:14|| 2018-12-05 16:14|| Front Page Top

#16 Legally, I believe that the deal is that if the Parliament stops paying the monarch a set income, they resume gathering the income from their Crown Lands, which include a great deal of extremely popular tourist traps throughout the country and places like Bermuda and the Channel Islands. They would become private citizens, but probably also the wealthiest people in the UK, and the British Government would lose all right to use their property for any reason without paying them, like any other property owner.

Posted by Vernal Hatrack2366 2018-12-05 22:11|| 2018-12-05 22:11|| Front Page Top

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