tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-980951139270141970.post933477612613641446..comments2023-11-30T10:43:33.130-06:00Comments on Reading Freely: The English ResistanceStephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15097908023032528200noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-980951139270141970.post-31651952934144171572016-04-16T03:26:26.514-05:002016-04-16T03:26:26.514-05:00Indeed... Charles III.... What could possibly go w...Indeed... Charles III.... What could possibly go wrong? Well, at least they no longer have any power! Now we just need to get rid of them completely [lol].CyberKittenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06394155516712665665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-980951139270141970.post-19443900164680503062016-04-15T18:46:12.481-05:002016-04-15T18:46:12.481-05:00I assumed with the arrival of the Dutch, and the i...I assumed with the arrival of the Dutch, and the importing of the Hanoverian, that any 'real' blood link to the Normans was long gone. Not that their blood would have been particularly Norman even if they'd kept it in 'in the family', unless they were inbreeding like mad. (Might explain a few of the monarchs, though. )<br /><br />You know, given that Charles I was beheaded, and Charles II was run off, why on Earth would Queen Elizabeth give her son that name? She might as well have named him John! <br /><br /><br />Stephenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15097908023032528200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-980951139270141970.post-37901282779818607282016-04-15T11:35:35.602-05:002016-04-15T11:35:35.602-05:00".....with a line that officially lives on to...".....with a line that officially lives on today".<br /><br />Only in the sense that they used a present day relatives DNA to confirm the identity of Richard III when they found his remains in Leicester. William I gave raise to the Plantagenet dynasty but this ended with Richards death at the battle of Bosworth. After that we had the Tudors (ending with Elizabeth I), then the Stewarts (with a short pause for Cromwell's republican Commonwealth) and then the Glorious Revolution when we deposed the sitting king and brought over William of Orange as an acceptable substitute. Wonderfully complex isn't it?<br /><br />Oh, and Hereward the Wake is a particular favourite of mine. We learnt about him very early in my school career from a history teacher who was anything but 'pro-Norman'! CyberKittenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06394155516712665665noreply@blogger.com