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| Subject: It's just a tad dodgy | |
Author: Ian (Australia) | [ Next Thread |
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] Date Posted: 15:13:18 01/12/05 Wed In reply to: Nick (UK) 's message, "hmmm" on 14:00:46 01/12/05 Wed The list tells you that the Queen is descended from some line, Prince Phil from somewhere else, then suddenly it will tell you that Charles is descended from someone or other without suggesting on which side. Couldn't they be a little more consistent on that? They are also talking about membership of the royal families of different European countries, which is hardly the same as being related to the actual peasants of those same countries. That said, it's several trillion times better than some shaven-headed nong suggesting that the royal family is "pure" something or other. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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Author: Ed Harris (London) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 15:33:54 01/12/05 Wed I agree that the point is to deconstruct the myth that HM holds her position because she is an embodiment of racial purity. This is clearly nonsense, and so it doesn't matter how iffy some of that info is. On the other hand, there is still a tendency to talk about a "European" race, wich is clearly nonsense. There is no such thing. Slavs and Teutons and Latins and Scandinavians and such like are more closely related to each other than, say, Australian aboriginies and Japanese, but they are different races nevertheless, and many of them more alien to us culturally than Indians, Singaporeans etc. In a way, then, this attempt to show the multi-racial origins of the royals is a bit hypocritical because of the relative racial but not cultural proximity. Charlie should have married Crown Princess Wossname from Japan - that would have put the puma among the pigeons. On the other hand, the previous leader of the Conservative Party was a quarter Japanese, and no-one seemed to care, so who knows? Considering it from another point of view, though, it would be a potentially monarchy-killing disaster if William marries some European or even non-European aristocrat's daughter. He should find a nice wife from Down Under somewhere, preferably called Sheilla or Katelyn or some such thing. See how Mr Latham and Ms Clarke like that. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |