Love this.. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/video/vir...-15-concrete-slabs/vi-AAxuwkn?ocid=spartandhp Wonder how long it took him to set up and practice it?
The wife is forcing me to watch the wedding highlights (having already been made to watch the full thing this morning). I think this is revenge for all those footy highlights...
She was flaky, but I can't see Diana doing that. The old rule in aristocracy is an heir and a spare....before you stray. Doesn't matter now anyway....Harry has shifted down to 6th.
I do think it'd be fun to make all of the royals take DNA tests. Something tells me that the lineages of most nation's monarchies are anything but unbroken.
As the saying goes: Its a wise child who knows its own father. It is a relatively modern idea that the heir is fixed...kings (and rarely queens) named their successors, hence wars of succession. And why kings can be appointed...William and Mary and the Hanovers being examples. However, they were usually related. For example, Princess Diana had a fair bit of royal blood herself. And (apart from recent incomers) most of us are related to each other and probably to the Royal family because the population was so much smaller in the past. Boris Johnson was amazed to find that he was related to one of the early Georges...not a great surprise when you look at him And Danny Dyer from EastEnders was a direct descendent in the Royal line. Comes down to possession being 9/10s of the law.
And of course, during the Wars of the Roses there was a period when we had 2 kings of England anointed and crowned at the same time, Henry VI and Edward IV. They sorted it all out in the end of course, albeit a bit bloodily.
And Stephen and Matilda. Only settled when Stephen agreed never to have children, so that Matilda's could inherit. Apparently this was a common way of settling things in those days....you can be king, but your opponent's children inherit.
And Matilda’s son became Henry II, the first Plantagenet king, a line that only ended 330 years later when Richard III died at Bosworth. So the entire line was bookended by civil wars.
Clarity of inheritance is more peaceful. No danger of Prince Harry staging a coup and locking George, Charlotte and Louis in the Tower.
