Very kind of you to extend your sympathies, Neapolitan, but I don't think many English people are as upset as you suggest. Of course the media always manage to track down some emotional types to make things sound more dramatic.
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Originally Posted by Neapolitan
I think that the English people can be proud of themselves for the fact that England came in second place for the longest reigning monarch. I mean it's not first place but then things didn't go horribly wrong like in France or Russia.
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^ Gotta ask who was on a throne longer than QE II ?
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Originally Posted by The Batlord
Having thought about it I've come to the conclusion that, while as Prince Charles he was a loser who I gave no ****s about, as KING CHARLES III I have no choice but to cast away my traitorous citizenship and bow to the highest Charles in the land. Let all Charleses claim their divine birthright.
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Good for you, Charles! Together you and me can defend the new King's honour!!
I'm gonna start by saying that as a public figure he is far too prone to self-pity, but he has this in his favour:-
- he seems sincere and well-intentioned, even innovative, by the limited standard of the rigid royals
- he got a lot of negative press attention because of the "scandal" with Diana, which even now is being dragged up again, but in fact he is not the first man to have married one woman, regretted it and then married another
- he was banging the drum about environmental pollution approx 20 years before politicians and industrialist would admit that it was a pervasive problem