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To: tjwmason
In 1660 the King came back, and there was massive rejoicing...

...And we've had no truck with religious extremism ever since, thank God. Since then, however, every monarch has ruled with the knowledge that if they did something against the will of Parliament there was a fair chance their head would end up on a pike on Tower Bridge. Keeps them on their toes. I'm a supporter of the monarchy too, but I think it's disingenuous to refer to us as a "monarchy" in the same way as we were a monarchy before Cromwell. This Princess Michael thing just proves that the royals should keep their mouths shut unless they are reading speeches prepared by wiser heads.
34 posted on 05/27/2004 8:22:10 AM PDT by ScudEast
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To: ScudEast; tjwmason

Axshully, the UK would be a constitutional monarchy, not an autocracy like Brunei or Saudi A


41 posted on 05/27/2004 9:32:30 AM PDT by Cronos (W2K4!)
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