Charles wants multi-faith coronation service

Daily Mail ^ | 26th October 2006 | Daily Mail

[Miss Behave]

King Kotex

[MadIvan]

No, he's not. Charles wants to change his name to George, for example.

However, Britain has done well with 3 out of its 4 King Williams. I suggest we're ready for a 5th William.

Regards, Ivan

[SAJ]

Works for me, mate. I don't follow the Royals as closely as you likely do, but he seems quite a civilised young man. Might be a fine monarch, or what's left of a monarch these days. A bit sad, really, much of what's happened with the Windsors.

Thanks for the good answer, too. I thought there'd been sundry kings whose reigning name wasn't any of their given names, but couldn't recall.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

This dude is brainless (which could already be seen in his first choice of a wife).

And how about his second.... who should have been his first, had he had any guts in the first go-around?!

[Cementjungle]

Somewhere along the line that family's DNA got really screwed up to produce this batch of royal blood.

[SAJ]

Well, that's a bit crude...if not really too inaccurate in fact.

;^)

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Let us hope the Queen Mum lives a long, long time.

Either that or that Lord Carey who seems to be unduly influencing Bonnie Prince Charlie to die before QE2.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Charles wants to change his name to George, for example.

And Charles is as nutty as George III.

[MadIvan]

The Georges had been improving. King George V was excellent. King George VI was good for the country during World War II. Charles would be the worst George since King George IV.

Regards, Ivan

[YCTHouston]

Be careful, you never know when MadIvan is going to come back.

[SAJ]

The bad news is that, by the time Charles was ''ready'' to marry, Crown law prohibited him from marrying Camilla. I don't claim the law makes or made any sense at all, but it is **entirely** clear on the point. Perhaps he should have stood up and done what his grandfather's brother did, simply renounced, married the woman he loved, and lived his life. But, sadly, he didn't, and we're all stuck with him.

Or, had Charles been of the temperament of, say, Henry Tudor, he might have done a sort of Johnny Paycheck on the law, and told the nobs to shove it. But, Charles is -- legitimate, if short, military career aside -- a bit of a weenie. That would never even occur to him.

Perhaps young William will put a bit of spine back into the monarchy. Who knows? Certainly not I.

[FreedomCalls]

He also wants the service truncated into a "less unwieldy' and more 'focused and telecentric" event, according to the report.

Uh oh. Here come the stilt-walkers, the mimes, and the jugglars.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Crown him with many clowns... er, I mean crowns

[Truth29]

Oh, I hope you are right. Charles needs to be bipassed. How would the Queen go about this? Would she make some sort of public proclamation changing the order of succession?

[Miss Behave]

Sorry, SAJ. I just kinda blurted it out as it came to me.

I think the thing that chapped my hide was the Defender of faith instead of Defender of The Faith part.

[FreedomCalls]

Is Prince William in any way obliged to choose 'William' as his reigning name?

He can choose any of his given names: William Arthur Philip Louis. King Arthur it could be!

Prince Charles' given names are: Charles Philip Arthur George. He has said he prefers George.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Setting aside the somewhat mawkish aspects of political correctness involved; Americans should give Charles some credit for this move -- after all, you beat it him to it by over 200 years. As King, Charles would be the head of the Church of England -- just the sort of state religion that the Bill of Rights addressed thus: "Congress shall make no law establishing religion,...".

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

Prince Charles, the Algore of the British monarchy. Born and bred to be leader, nutty as a fruitcake, yet destined never to wield the power...

[Thinkin' Gal]

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

We have a picture in our home that I know you would like. The story basically goes like this.....

My great-aunt used to frequent the public library quite often. Imagine her surprise to open the first issue of the American Foreign Legion magazine (published sometime in 1920) only to see her brother in a picture of the troops being reviewed in France by King George V and General Black Jack Pershing. My great-aunt wrote away to the magazine to see if she could order a copy of that picture. Sure enough, they were willing to do this - back in 1920, mind you. That picture hung for decades on the wall of the lumber yard run by my grandfather (the US Army MP shown in this picture) then in subsequent years, my father. Just a few years back we had the picture scanned and duplicates made up for all of us grand kids. It hangs proudly in my home.