Requisat in Pacem, my leige

 While born and raised American as you can get, I'm mostly British extraction, and have been fascinated by Britain and the Royal Family for as long as I can remember. I have watched SO MUCH on BBC America, and picked up quite the lovely British accent from all that watching the telly. Thus, I have generally considered the leader of my country not to be the President of the USA, though he has been my whole life, one man or another, but my leader has been Her Majesty, Elizabeth Regina, Queen of England. 

So it is with a sad heart now that I mention her passing the other day. Seventy years she was the Queen, and for so many, many people around the world, the only royal ruler they've ever known. It feels like losing a piece of myself, to lose my Queen. 

Unfortunately, her rather less-than-stellar-intelligence oldest son, Charles, will now reign as King of England, and while my fealty will remain to Queen (or King, now) and country, I'm not certain he'll make a good monarch. He has chosen Charles III for his regnal name. This does not bode well. 

Charles I was not intended to be king, but his older brother Henry, died, leaving Charles as the future king, reigning after his father, James I of England/James VI of Scotland. He fought with Cromwell's Parlimentarians, leading to civil war, and Charles I's eventual charges of treason, and conviction thereof, then execution by beheading. He remains the only British monarch tried and executed for treason.

Eventually, his son Charles II was invited to return to the throne and rule as King. He became known as the Merry Monarch, and had at least a dozen illegitimate children with various mistresses. Upon his death, his brother, James succeeded him as King, as Charles II had no legitimate heirs.

I'm not overly hopeful of Charles III being a good king. He committed adultery with Camilla for years before his divorce from his rightful wife, Diana. Later marries Camilla. And Camilla has never really been pretty in the conventional sense. Charles would have done so much better to have done his best with Diana and stuck it out with her. She would have made an exceptional Queen Consort. But let's face it, Charles couldn't handle that Diana was so much more popular than he was, and was jealous of this. 

Thankfully, eventually, we'll have Wills and Kate as King and Queen Consort, and Prince William apparently has absolutely no problem with his wife being at least as popular and beloved as he is if not more so. In the meantime, we get to deal with all the jokes about our new King and how he's 73 and finally got his first real job. He's HAD a job, really, learning to be the future king, doing all the diplomatic grind and charities and so forth for his whole life. 

Let's be a little nice to him if we can and TRY not to be too harsh on him. Let us at least give our new sovereign a chance to mess it up as royally as only a royal can before we make with the cruel jokes, shall we?


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