Re: King Charles diagnosed with cancer

From	Louis Epstein <le@main.lekno.ws>
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Subject	Re: King Charles diagnosed with cancer
Date	2024-02-06 04:49 +0000
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radioacti...@gmail.com <radioactiveseattle@gmail.com> wrote:
> The Queen [for 17 months now has been] dead!  Long live The King!
> 
> Well, while I sure am glad I've never been one of Charles III's subjects, I HAVE always liked this improbably-good-natured, privileged-from-birth fellow, once I started following the young then-Prince of Wales circa 1963.
> 
> And I was forevermore in Charles's sympathetic camp ever since he famously, 
> as teenager (and then still blissfully-future-harridan-Diana-free!) Prince 
> Charles, surreptitiously mailed that fan letter overseas to Mad Magazine*.  
> Thus I always hoped the often-unfairly-ridiculed Charles would enjoy his OWN 
> lengthy time on the throne (ESPECIALLY after he set a new Brit record 
> awaiting his reigning parent to expire, thus eclipsing the future Edward 
> VII's waiting for HIS mother to die--eventually, as it happened, on Tuesday, 
> January 22, 1901 on the Isle of Wight--thus ending the then-record-setting 
> Victorian Era).

Queen Victoria reigned
63 years,7 months,2 days
and 
Queen Elizabeth II reigned
70 years,7 months,2 days

Charles also broke the age-at-accession record of William IV
(born August 21st 1765,acceded June 26th 1830,but wasn't even
next in line until January 5,1827).

> MEANWHILE:  
> 
> IF (and I did type IF) I understand these arcane Anglo things, 
> nowadays-not-so-young Prince William doesn't by British law HAVE to choose 
> William V as his kingly moniker once he's ultimately crowned, even though 
> after that WOULD be the expected sequence after William IV died thrusting 
> young (and quite fertile) Victoria into 19th AND 20th Century history.
> 
> Instead, rather than the somewhat, uh, common William V...Prince William can 
> instead go with, say, King Ringo, should he so choose.  Or King Clapton.  Or 
> King Elvis.  Or even King Sinatra** !
> 
> (Isn't that--if a bit irreverently--correct, Sir Epstein?)

He could,but should not.

(As far as musical courts go,at least King Oliver had a musical nobility
(Duke Ellington,Count Basie) and ecclesiastical household (Reverend
Satchelmouth,"Satchmo" for short,and Elder Teagarden)).

> BRYAN STYBLE/Florida
> ===================
> * Anyone remember the year he (quite privately) posted that published 
> envelope to the Mad editors stateside?  I wanna say 1964, but I might be off 
> by several years on this one.
> ** I suppose that's what little ol' me would select, were I in his regal shoes.

-=-=-
The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

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    Re: King Charles diagnosed with cancer RinaldiJ <rinaldij@nunya.com> - 2024-02-05 15:11 -0600
      Re: King Charles diagnosed with cancer "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2024-02-05 22:40 +0000
        Re: King Charles diagnosed with cancer RinaldiJ <rinaldij@nunya.com> - 2024-02-05 17:25 -0600
          Re: King Charles diagnosed with cancer "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2024-02-06 00:10 +0000
            Re: King Charles diagnosed with cancer "radioacti...@gmail.com" <radioactiveseattle@gmail.com> - 2024-02-05 17:54 -0800
              Re: King Charles diagnosed with cancer Louis Epstein <le@main.lekno.ws> - 2024-02-06 04:49 +0000
                Re: King Charles diagnosed with cancer "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2024-02-06 05:03 +0000
                Re: King Charles diagnosed with cancer Louis Epstein <le@main.lekno.ws> - 2024-02-06 05:16 +0000
                Re: King Charles diagnosed with cancer "radioacti...@gmail.com" <radioactiveseattle@gmail.com> - 2024-02-05 21:43 -0800
                Re: King Charles diagnosed with cancer Louis Epstein <le@main.lekno.ws> - 2024-02-06 06:26 +0000
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                Re: King Charles diagnosed with cancer Tommie Hicks <tommie.hicks303@gmail.com> - 2024-02-06 07:32 -0800
                Re: King Charles diagnosed with cancer Louis Epstein <le@main.lekno.ws> - 2024-02-06 20:29 +0000
            Re: King Charles diagnosed with cancer RinaldiJ <rinaldij@nunya.com> - 2024-02-05 20:16 -0600

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