German Duke Franz Herzog von Bayern Is Rightful King Of England
GOD save Franz Herzog von Bayern new King of England and Scotland.
The Telegraph reports that should Gordon Brown repeal the 1701 Act of Settlement, something he is considering, the 74-year-old German will sit on the throne.
Brown sees the undoing of the Act as a way of “healing a historic injustice by ending the prohibition against Catholics taking the throne”.
No Act and Franz Herzog von Bayern, the current Duke of Bavaria, becomes the rightful heir to the British Crown under the Stuart line.
Know that the “bachelor, who lives alone in the vast Nymphenberg Palace in Munich, is the blood descendant of the 17th-century King Charles I”.
Of course, it will not happen. There is no more chance of a German sitting on the English thrown as there is of the King of England being a adulterous divorcee…
April 7th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
It is interesting how many people do not know their history.
“There is no more chance of a German sitting on the English thrown as there is of the King of England being a adulterous divorcee”
well I would hate to tell you that before the Windsors they were known as Saxe -Gothe. So the present rulers of England are German as we speak. They changed their name during WWII in order to separate themselves from their German lineage.
April 7th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Thrown, or throne?
God bless the Germans, we are all brothers and sisters.
April 7th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
The real king of England is a bloke who lives in Australia. Directly descended from Edward III without the “wrong side of the blanket” problems that the current line had in the 14th century.
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/i-m/monarchtree.html
April 7th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
it would appear that the honorable, ric cohen, is a stranger to sarcasm….nit
April 7th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Perhaps Ric Cohen should look up “sarcasm” since it is in full force at the end of the article.
April 7th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
ric, your grasp of sarcasm is incredible.
April 7th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
IIRC from my Wikipedia education, it goes even further back than that. When Victoria became Queen, there was a law on the books in Saxony that stated that no woman shall be Queen of Saxony in her own right. So that part got broken off from the rest.
April 7th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
And of course the King of England was at one point an adulterous divorcee. You know, Henry VIII. It was a sarcastic statement, made particularly pointed by the fact that he was responsible for starting the Church of England, and thus separating from the Catholic Church to begin with. Might want to look out for the humor before you go getting all uppity
April 7th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
throne.
April 7th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Yeah! Sarcasm, throne, nit, dumb kings and everyone is stupid! Uppity! I think I will stay up all night to correct everyone who is wrong on the internet. Nazis!