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>I think it’s interesting that you’d blame this family for the horrors of colonialism. Heres the opening for Patrick Freyne in the Irish Times on the British Monarchy: "Having a monarchy next door is a little like having a neighbour who’s really into clowns and has daubed their house with clown murals, displays clown dolls in each window and has an insatiable desire to hear about and discuss clown-related news storie…
The royal family, including current members, also has a history of some sympathy towards Nazism. [1]: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/royal-family-nazi-... > [2]: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/19/queens-nazi-... > [3]: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/4170083.stm >
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She sent the card (it’s a card now) to her mother (also Queen Elisabeth) when the latter turned 100. I believe my grandmother waited around for this, at the end. She had never been particularly interested in the monarchy, I’d thought, but when she got older and had trouble reading I noticed that among her large print gardening books were a couple on the monarchy.
The question I want answered is, if she lives to 100 will she send a card to herself?
I really wish we could just do away with all this royal family nonsense. You guys are somehow special because what? Useless social fiction from antiquity.
as for celebrities and "royalty", humans are hard-wired to follow hierarchies and thus be fascinated by those at the top
It wasn't that long ago he recovered from an infection [1]. And I remember reading he is only a few more months from 100 years old!. Spending his life serving the country. Rest In Peace [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-56172496
The man was almost 100 years old, almost 30 when India and many other countries got independence from British after a long multi-decade struggle, with many many innocent dead. Frankly I see him as a wealthy old man from a very influential family who should have done better. Am I wrong that this was my first though after seeing this comment? Am I supposed to feel sorry for the royal family and their lack of "freedom"?
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Uh. What? Sacred Geometry is an ancient Greek concept that has nothing to do with Freemasons. Pythagoras was the most famous person to push it. It's that thing where they thought the world was made out of the Platonic solids, tried to explain the planetary orbits in terms of polygons, et cetera. It remained huge through Greece and Italy until the 1400s. The Leonardo piece "Vitruvian Man," where the guy has his arms a…
Im sorry but what do you think the ‘G’ stands for inside the Freemasons logo? Also: Flintsones? The Queen’s cousin is the most senior Freemason in the hierarchy.
I imagine the next few years will be quite interesting for the British monarchy.
Not sure what the support for that is in Canada.
This is an actual honest question; why is this on hacker news?
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> [T]he oath is made directly to Queen Elizabeth by name, not to the crown in general. So when a monarch dies does everyone in the armed forces take a new oath?
The actual oath is something like "I swear ... to Queen Elizabeth, and her heirs, ..." I ASSuMEd the oath would more like "I swear ... to the Crown ..." But, if the Queen is in fact the Crown (as stated by a different response), then I suppose it's a distinction without a difference.
I don't think I misrepresented it in any way.