If I were Fergie...

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... I would change my name to Sarah York, by deedpoll. There's absolutely nothing stopping her!

I don't know if Windsor or Mountbatten-Windsor are "protected" names in some way, but York sure isn't.

😂😂

Yep, I agree with all of this.

It had nothing at all to do with the Nazis. They changed their name long before the Nazis existed.

Long before? WW1 is when they changed it. To counteract anti-Germanic sentiment. The Nazis didn't just come along in 1939, the build up didn't start with the Versailles Treaty. Those cogs were spinning for minimum 20 years previous.

I think he was Anglo Catholic rather than Roman Catholic. He was Catholic but didnt want Rome telling him what to do not to divorce his wives. The Indian Catholics in Kerala are called something else I cant remember as the Catholic church was established by St Thomas rather than St Paul, the first Pope, so there are different but still Catholic churches. I have been to an Anglo Catholic church and they had the same prayer as the Roman Catholics iirc ( its been years since Ive said it in any church) "I believe in one Catholic and Apostolic church..."
I think it was Catherine Parr who was the fervent protestant and influenced Edward and Elizabeth, who were Protestant.

She was indeed - she was a convert and very zealous once she had decided what religious practices to follow.

Thanks, this is interesting. I wonder if Henry 8 had regrets on his deathbed about having wrenched England away from Rome. And fear he was going to tell ( not to mention the 1000s of people who died because of his deeds).

Agree too, I suspect royal family has had sight of VG’s brother’s book and is trying to minimise damage.

Interesting stuff in Private Eye about a certain Ms Barak who writes for the mail and is a mate of Ghislaine Maxwells. She’s been leaking a lot of stuff about SF, looks like the purpose is to draw conversation away from Trump and Maxwell. I think there’s a move, if not to rehabilitate Maxwell, at least to minimise her, and it’s coming from the White House.

Was the actual cause of VG's death revealed? I know it was reported as suicide, but the details are vague. I'm not looking for a blow by blow account, but wonder what method was used? Spidey feeling here.....

The reason changed LP's for Williams children was because under the 1917 ones only his eldest son would be HRH Prince. Which, given the changes to the primogeniture rules going through at the time, could have put them in the situation where they could have a daughter who was a future Queen titled as Lady, then a younger son as HRH Prince. Those changes were to avoid a potential massive sexism row. George would always have been HRH Prince as William's first born, Charlotte and Louis would have been lady and Lord until Charles was king.

And for the same reason I think in due course they'll have to change the rule about grandchildren via male sons being princes/princesses. Because it would be silly for Louis' future children to be HRH when those of Charlotte, who wwwwwould be ahead in the line of succession, weren't. eithr

You make it sound like he was a serial adulterer. I only know of Camilla, who he should have been allowed to marry in the first place. Unlike Diana!

Either all grandchildren of the monarch will be, or they will restrict it to the children of the heir.

Ars you suggesting foul play

I have a strong suspicion that William is going to change a lot with regards to titles etc when he gets the top job.

The Nazi party may have started in 1919 but were not a major political force in Germany until after the Wall Street Crash and the failure of Weimar to deal with the economic fallout. Hitler was not made Chancellor until 1933 and hadn’t secured his dictatorship until 1934. Right up until 1939 the British government hoped to avoid conflict with Germany. The anti German sentiment of WWI was nothing to do with the Nazis. It was the Kaiser’s Germany we fought in WWI.
I am not disputing that Windsor was a made up band due to wanting to remove the association to their Germanic heritage but it was absolutely nothing to do with the Nazis.

The Royal Family has been British for generations now!

Yes. I know. I'm just answering a query about the name change.

The Nicene Creed is commonly used by many Christians, including Protestant.

Yes, but of well known German origin, both from the Hanoverians and Prince Albert, and we were at war with Kaiser Wilhelm II who was George V's first cousin. The German family name was just embarrassing.

That was when German Shepherds were renamed Alsatians too :)

Poor doggies. Not their fault 😉

Dachshunds weren't renamed but they went out of fashion.

All my childhood I never knew they were called dachshunds, I thought they were called sausage dogs.

Im pretty sure William will kick Andrew and his missus out in the street when he takes the throne. Wills wont have to wait as long as his father did 😉 I do feel sympathy for Beatrice and Eugenie though, none of this is their fault and they must feel torn

I think if they had their wits about them, they might have questioned what's going on. They're now 35 and 37, so not exactly young. Beatrice brokered the deal with Emily Maitlis and listened to it - she must have questioned what was being said?.Where did all the money come from? Why were Ma and Pa so friendly with Epstein?.