Monarchy

You are correct in part oagre, the Hanovers and the Hohenzollern were allies.
Actually although Great Britain was allied with Prussia in the Nine Years War/King Williams War and the War of the Spanish Succession/ Queen Anne's War as it was with all the states of the Holy Roman Empire. It was allied with the Hapsburgs against Prussia in the War of the Austrian Succession/King George's War. The Great Diplomatic Switch was when Prussia allied with Great Britain in the Seven Years War/ French and Indian War and the Hapsburgs allied with France.
 
What does electing folks have to do with the monarchy?
Very little; us folks haven't elected monarchs for millennia, although there was a brief spate of such in the Balkans around a century ago.

However as monarch is the top job by definition, and there's no sign at all that top jobs are going extinct, the method of choice would seem of continuing importance. Not so to you?
 
Very little; us folks haven't elected monarchs for millennia, although there was a brief spate of such in the Balkans around a century ago.

However as monarch is the top job by definition, and there's no sign at all that top jobs are going extinct, the method of choice would seem of continuing importance. Not so to you?

Very little - I agree which is why I was wondering why you brought it up in this thread.
 
Very little - I agree which is why I was wondering why you brought it up in this thread.
And I likewise am wondering why you're ducking the overall issue—and the direct question—raised in my reply to you.

On the assumption you actually care about monarchy.
 
And I likewise am wondering why you're ducking the overall issue—and the direct question—raised in my reply to you.

On the assumption you actually care about monarchy.

The monarchy in Canada is not the top job in real terms, it's a figure head position. As such, the method of choosing a monarch is of little importance to me.
 
What to my wondering eyes did appear. . .

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Although Danmand has flown off after having come through to drop his bomb (post). Just for him, this photograph of the Danish Royal Family which was in the newspaper this morning. By the way they seem to be popular in Denmark.
 
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Although Danmand has flown off after having come through to drop his bomb (post). Just for him, this photograph of the Danish Royal Family which was in the newspaper this morning. By the way they seem to be popular in Denmark.

Parasites. If you can divine a reason why that group of people shall be living on public, tax paid welfare at 10-100 times the rate of regular welfare recepients, (who have to prove that they are seeking employment), you are a lot cleverer than I am.


PS: What happened to your trusty squire Blackrock?
 
The Coronation is conducted underwater???



Wow you must be expecting the Thames Flood barrier to fail catastrophically!

Sigh.......its a sad state of affairs when someone doesn't recognize a classic part of an exchange from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Would that we all heeded their infinite wisdom......
 
Word is that Blackrock is in search of the person who shot down the plane.

If I know his logic maybe the Algerian plane is his attempt to replicate the crime scene......
 
Parasites. If you can divine a reason why that group of people shall be living on public, tax paid welfare at 10-100 times the rate of regular welfare recepients, (who have to prove that they are seeking employment), you are a lot cleverer than I am.


PS: What happened to your trusty squire Blackrock?

To many they represent continuity, especially in the European mono-cultures.

They can be a great source of inspiration to people during times of strife. I will site the Queen Mum during WW2 as an amazing example of this.

The history of a nation can be tought and given context. And lessons can be learned both of good and bad times of leadership.

Symbols are powerful things. They can bring together and unite. Don't discount what they can do until the worst happens.
 
The monarchy in Canada is not the top job in real terms, it's a figure head position. As such, the method of choosing a monarch is of little importance to me.
Although enough to run you to more than one post. I take it you missed the fooferaw of Harper breaking his fixed Elections Act and hiding from the Evil Coalition behind the skirts of the monarch's rep.

He certainly behaved as if that top job was more than a figurehead. But I suppose some think he shoulda just done as he pleased from the get-go. Skipping elections entirely after the first, perhaps.

If top jobs didn't matter, we wouldn't have 'em. We certainly wouldn't be posting about them.
 
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Poor Danmand and a couple of others, about to have a cow!

It would appear that you are unable to come up with a reason also.

PS: did you send Blackrock back to his mother?
 
Danmand will now throw-up

The United States of America sent as official gifts on the birth of Prince George: a blue alpaca wool baby blanket; a handmade rocking horse with the presidential seal on the saddle, and a polo mallet, the head of which was made from an oak tree that stood on the south lawn of the White House.
 
The United States of America sent as official gifts on the birth of Prince George: a blue alpaca wool baby blanket; a handmade rocking horse with the presidential seal on the saddle, and a polo mallet, the head of which was made from an oak tree that stood on the south lawn of the White House.

How ironic, and how sad to watch the decline of the american empire. The land of the free who cast off the parasitic and incompetent George III is now genuflecting to a parasitic baby called George. It is indeed enough to make one puke.