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Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor was the heir to the throne, an Army Officer, an ambulance driver, an auto mechanic, a nurse, and a paramedic all at the same time. During the movie the actress portaying her is trying to pull off "A Princess pretending to be a commoner".

From what I understand Henry and Meghan wouldn't complain if they were kicked down to commoner because they've already walked away from "The Firm" ... as the tabloids call it.

Is that the one where Elizabeth goes chasing after Margaret and gets an AWOL Corpral as a bodyguard/guide during the VE celebration? If it is, I've seen it. EDIT: If I'm remebering it right the blue-collar AWOL Corpral has absolutelty no clue that the naive and very upper class gal trying to...

Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor was an amazing woman and questioning why someone was invited to come and pay their respects is just you being an asshole.

Saying that Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor liked you when you weren't on a nickname basis with her is you just being an ignorant dick.

With people her age it's only a matter of time and a question of when. When my great-grandmother died a few days before Thanksgiving '96 there was a twin engined private aircraft with the engines running waiting for me to go charging through one of the private terminals of Champain-Urbana's...

Bitching about how someone writes or speaks English is just you being an asshole. I know that @ATP (Polish) and @Agent23 (Bulgarian) don't have English as a native language. There's also a TS forumite who has Brazilian Portugese or Italian as the language they first learned. I don't know his...

John basically had to clean up the mess Richard left in his wake. The Magna Carta is one of the results.

The US Declaration of Independence was adressed to King George III but aimed squarely at Parliament. When all was said and done we didn't really have a problem with the idea of a monarchy or King George III.

Pricks will try to stick it in your ass whenever they think they can get away with it.

Parliament wanted someone protestant who had a legit claim and Sophie of Hanover was the most senior one after Mary, William, and Anne. She was also the only one who had kids when the Bill of Rights was written.

I think he'll do ok. His job is basically smiling and waving for the cameras while occassionally reminding Parliament that he can say "no" their latest brilliant idea(tm) if he thinks it's utter idiocy.

George of Hanover was basically the designated "tag, you're it" when England, Scotland, and Ireland needed a King 1714. There's also John of Beaumont Sans Terre. The youngest son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. He's the off-screen bad guy in Robin Hood stories who had to come up with a...

Ireland would like to have some words with you, as would practically everyone else who who isn't a Puritan. When the British got rid of him and his ideas they said "we want a King" and then wrote this when James II/VII (the legit heir) wasn't suitable and fucking things up: Parliament...

That was not just "someone breaking protocol". That's something you just don't do with someone who isn't expecting one from you because you could be charged with assault and battery if the recipient does not wish to be hugged.

She was also a WWII vet: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hrh_Princess_Elizabeth_in_the_Auxiliary_Territorial_Service,_April_1945_TR2832.jpg ... and an auto mechanic because British automobiles of the period were, shall we say, fussy on a good day.