But the question is: Why would she? She can let Charles do all the work while she withdraws to Windsor Castle. That’s perfectly fine within the rules of the game. It’s not like Charles needs the crown now to inspire his troops to burn down Orléans or whatever.
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It’s expected that he will take a regnal name, like George or Macbeth.
I think I will go to the bookies and put a fiver on him being King Macbeth II. I just want to see what the odds are.
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Ah, the Scottish king.
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Maybe we could hire the Imagineers at Disney to make an animatronic figurehead, maybe an anthropomorphic lion in a Union Flag waistcoat, and use that going forward. Hail, King Leo! I mean, Prince John was a better king than King Richard, so there is precedent.
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Maybe a slight rewording to make it clearer that we’re discussing a future event, like “When Queen Elizabeth passes, how will England respond?”
I’m guessing they’ve already had Tom Brokaw / Dana Carvey prerecording announcements of the Queen’s death.
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Nor am I writing this to express displeasure with her reign
Why not express displeasure? She and the whole inbred, blood-diamond encrusted lot are parasites, whose wealth should have been dispersed to those the institution has abused for centuries, well, centuries ago.
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Then no one can speak his name ever again. I like where this is going.
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The traditional way to stop a child complaining of starvation is to give it a flag to wave.
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Are Queen Elizabeth Arms supposed to be like “chicken fingers” or “buffalo wings”? /s
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You daren’t ask what a “hot pocket” is.
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Isn’t such speculation treason, or has that law been repealed since Henry VIII’s day?
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Triple dog dare you.
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“Well done, ma’am, would you like a tissue?”
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To be honest there are elected politicians (maybe better term is gerrymandered) that are at an absolute lower level.
Having to choose between Boris johnson and Charles what do you choose? And between Charles and Trump or Marjorie Taylor Greene?
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They will have to paint it all black when she goes!
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She has a way to go there unless you start putting in frankly unreasonable qualifiers:
That’s going to happen anyway, regardless of who ends up on the throne next. Lots of countries are just quietly waiting until the Queen dies to make constitutional changes.
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The English “Gladiator”:
I am Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor.
Husband to a murdered wife.
Father to a bastard son.
Brother to an (alleged) nonce.
And I will have my revenge, in this life or the next.
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No, it’s accentuating the fact that she WILL (in future) die. There’s no point in softening the reality by saying conditional statements (if…then; such-and-such WOULD happen).
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