tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205333.post7713567228563100384..comments2023-10-16T11:28:03.544+00:00Comments on Anomaly UK: What Ecclestone should have saidAnomaly UKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04780148789321563441noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205333.post-57234703814748915652009-07-10T12:50:20.290+00:002009-07-10T12:50:20.290+00:00“The advantage of monarchy is that the ruler does ...“The advantage of monarchy is that the ruler does not normally face a rival who holds an equal right to rule.”<br /><br />I am reminded of the Waugh book “Black Mischief” I once lent you, in which the Emperor Seth asks his General what happened to the defeated usurper, and the General has to admit that his men ate him. Seth’s rejoinder “I say, that’s a bit much, after all he was my father.”<br /><br />A knowledge of English history (a subject which you once proclaimed ignorance of) reveals very few moments in which a ruler was not vulnerable to a rival who held an equal right to rule. The monarch was inevitably the person who could gather the biggest army around him, not the one with the left most position on the family tree. However, when his son or grandson took over, his army mustering abilities might be inferior, leaving him vulnerable a challenge from the left.<br /><br />Then there are things like the will of Henry VIII (no foreigner to accede to the English throne)(would exclude James I and his descendants), the dictat of George III (no member of the royal family to marry without monarch’s permission) (now rendered void by the Human Rights Act (right to marry) ), dodgey marriages without proper dispensation, unsuccessful lies (Anne Boleyn was Henry VIII’s daughter); (James I was Rizzio’s son); (the Duke of Monmouth was legitimate), successful ones (James II’s heir was a bastard child smuggled in in a warming-pan), clandestine marriages (George III, George IV), the rights of women to succede or to tranmit dynastic rights, etc etc. Who makes the rules of succession? If Parliament, would it not be more genuine to say that Parliament rules, and not the King?<br /><br />Which is the surviving legitimate Society of Cogers? Where is the Grand’s regalia? These questions are simple compared to the identity of the monarch.A Nonny Mousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15824713232073772433noreply@blogger.com