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Post by paulchen on Jul 25, 2013 17:50:30 GMT
Well, most of us were right with the first name and a few with the middle names, even.
The main thing is that HRH The Duchess of Cambridge was delivered of a healthy baby.
Here's a health unto HRH Prince George of Cambridge!
PS I have written to the College of Arms to ask if anyone has given a thought to the possibility of HM The Queen reaching 105 when Prince George will be 18 and be entitled to a Coat of Arms. As a Prince and Great-Grandchild of a monarch has a thought been given to his arms and an appropriate coronet? [The Princess Royal's grandchildren, though older than George, wouldn't be affected as they aren't royal.]
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Post by paulchen on Jul 12, 2013 20:25:46 GMT
Many thanks for your help on the, Observer.
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Post by paulchen on Jul 5, 2013 10:33:23 GMT
That is indeed a strange situation...
Equally, does a monarch who has abdicated retain [all] the orders of chivalry that they were grand master of whilst on the throne or only those that they were invested with before their accession?
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Post by paulchen on May 23, 2013 9:51:36 GMT
It's always nice to speculate, even if I have observed that the current generation of Royal Families keep surprising us. My bets would possibly be as follows:
If a boy: George Philip/Charles Thomas/Michael - HRH Prince George of Cambridge, Earl of Strathern
If a girl: Charlotte Elizabeth Carole Diana - HRH Princess Charlotte Elizabeth of Cambridge
We shall see...
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Post by paulchen on May 22, 2013 12:45:12 GMT
As Princess Madeleine's fiancé, Christopher O'Neill, has declined a royal title, does anyone know if Princess Madeleine will retain her royal style and dukedom? The precedence of her Aunts would suggest that she will become simply Princess Madeleine, Mrs O'Neill.
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Post by paulchen on May 22, 2013 12:40:42 GMT
Basically, kingapolloxxxii, you are correct. One of the Ladies-in-Waiting was, I understand, Lady Susan Hussey (Baroness Hussey). I don't know who the other one was.
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Post by paulchen on Mar 11, 2013 10:48:33 GMT
So sad. I actually saw Princess Lilian and the rest of the Swedish Royal Family when I visited Windsor Castle a few years ago. I was sat on a bench waiting for St George's Chapel to open up and along came two Land Rovers and they all spilled out! I exchanged a fleeting glance with HM King Carl Gustav as if to say that his Aunt had wanted to see the place for the last time.
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Post by paulchen on Jan 30, 2013 18:57:50 GMT
Exciting news but hardly surprising.
But what irritates me are all the headlines from people who don't know what they are talking about. Like "Queen Beatrix abdicates". She hasn't abdicated yet! She has set in motion the wheels to accommodate her abdication which will be held on 30th April and which includes the swearing-in of her eldest son and heir as the next head of state of The Netherlands. Then, not now...
Also, the old stories [yawn, yawn] of how this reflects on the British Monarchy and would or, even, should The Queen abdicate and whether the Crown should skip a generation and go straight to The Duke of Cambridge. Blah, blah, blah...
Give me strength!
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Post by paulchen on Jan 24, 2013 15:28:10 GMT
Agreed Observer. And what will the husband of a Princess of Wales in her own right be called...?
And what happens to the title Princess Royal if the eldest daughter is already the heir? Does the second eldest daughter then get granted the title Princess Royal...?
The knock-on effects have to be dealt with as well.
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Post by paulchen on Jan 18, 2013 9:48:52 GMT
Does anyone know for sure whether these Letters Patent are an "amendment" to King George V's of 1917 as seems to be at least implied in the press or whether it is an isolated case as with King George VI's Letters Patent of 1948? The difference hinges on the phrase, "...the children of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales". Does this mean the Prince of Wales as in the institution of the title [any and every Prince of Wales] or this specific Prince of Wales [i.e. HRH The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales]?
I fully agree with tying up loopholes and anomalies, especially with the Succession Rights being amended. But we will have to wait and see if the baby is a boy or a girl, otherwise speculation is just speculation.
As for the succession to the title of the Duchy of Cambridge, that is very interesting. Personally, I would think that the situation will be avoided by their children simply being known as HRH Prince or Princess X of Cambridge. However, as with the "agreement" that HRH Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex will inherit the title of Duke of Edinburgh in due course there may come a time the children of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will want to marry and Prince Charles is still King. Although their parents will more than likely be Prince and Princess of Wales by then, the Cambridge title won't have merged with the Crown yet.
Will we set up a system like Sweden where all Princes and Princesses get a dukedom?
As for HRH Prince Harry, I think it is a case of either/or. We can only wait and see.
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Post by paulchen on Dec 13, 2012 15:36:11 GMT
The new Bill has just been published. It has just struck my mind whether the concept of the difference between Heir Presumptive and Heir Apparent will be specifically abolished somehow and also whether a future female heir will be entitled to be created Princess of Wales [plus Duchess of Cornwall, Rothesy, etc] in her own right. What would her consort be entitled to? I hope this has all be thought through...
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Post by paulchen on Dec 11, 2012 12:31:13 GMT
My understanding is that the changes will apply as of last October when the move was first started. I am not sure whether this will be restricted to the children of Princes William and Harry but imagine it falls in line with the more "slimline" Royal Family which meant only 6 members appeared on the balcony of Buckingham Palace after the Thanksgiving Service for The Queen's Diamond Jubilee [Prince Philip would have made it 7 but he was, of course, ill]. Will this mean, though, two systems - the old one for the rest of the Royal Family - or will the Line of Succession be restricted to the descendants of The Queen and/or Prince Charles?
One thing that irritates me at the moment is the press saying that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's first child, if a girl, will miraculously be born third in line to the Throne under the new system. Erm, the baby will third in line to the Throne at birth under the old system whether it is a boy or a girl. The possible change in circumstances will only come into force at the birth of their second child...
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Post by paulchen on Dec 4, 2012 17:35:04 GMT
Already? LOL
Well, if it's a girl I think Elizabeth and Diana would be pretty obvious bets.
Some people in the media are saying John is a favourite if it's a boy [after Diana's father], but I hardly think so as John is a very unlucky name in the Royal Family. Charles will be in there somewhere, maybe Thomas [after a friend from the Van Cutsem family and Camilla's son] or Micahel after Catherine's father.
We shall see. As I've said precviously, this generation seems to like to surprise us all...
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Post by paulchen on Nov 14, 2012 17:10:02 GMT
Congratulations! Bet you're on Cloud Nine!
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Post by paulchen on Jun 15, 2012 8:24:16 GMT
The Jubilee Honours will be announced officially in the annual Queen's Birthday Honours List due on Saturday which always coincides with The Queen's Official Birthday and Birthday Parade [the Trooping of the Colour]. This is why a number of performers at the Jubilee Concert got confused and started wishing Her Majesty a Happy Birthday.
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