I was wondering what the general consensus was among the British population and I think I know now.  It is my considered opinion that Meghan has no respect whatsoever for the family she has married into and especially no respect for royalty.  Prince Harry is descended from kings fer chrissake and she gives him a name any commoner child would hate!  It has been reported that Harry and his grandfather are (probably "were" now) close.  You would think he could grow a pair and insist that his son carry Prince Phillip's name.  I've always thought that Harry was well aware of his position as to royal duties and his proximity to the crown.  Apparently not.  Meghan rules that roost and he will slip irrevocably to a common level.  --Or-- he will realize what is happening and we will see a royal divorce down the road.

Mark, I am not at all surprised by the experiment with a "king's diet".  Too much meat and not enough vegetables is a poor diet indeed.

PBA, I think you are right about the attraction to the maids.

What I find terrible is that the American Government will expect tax money from his mother and him. Any presents they receive or their wealth. I'd tell the States to kiss off and just wouldn't bother visiting there anymore.

Yes, but we have naturally imported black culture, as we import everything that happens in the US, which is why 120 of them were stabbed to death  by other blacks in London alone last year and so far this year it's looking as though they will break their record of last year. We used to have a police policy of stop and search, whereby the police were lawfully allowed to stop people in the street and search them. It was a visible deterrent and it worked. So what happened to it? Well the black racist industry kicked up a fuss about what they considered to be blacks being singled out. What did they expect? If for every ten blacks you search you find five knives and one for every thirty whites, who are you going to target? I always thought the role of the police was to prevent crime, not submit to criminal complaints they're doing their job too efficiently. A copper's role is to seek out crime and prevent it and that's exactly what they were doing but as I said, the black racist industry called foul, white police targeting blacks..... blah blah blah blah and when the most powerful weapon in the western world, ie the black racist finger, is pointed in the direction of those charged with the authority to do a legitimate job, they capitulate. Guess who was the Home Secretary who stopped it at the time? Here's a clue, she went onto making capitulation a habit. Yep, Teresa May.

PBA, I think you are right about the attraction to the maids.

Sure I'm right Shula, the Kings were men and you know where mens minds and hands were all the time. Nothing but swines, the lot of them.

That milkmaid on the left is Elizabeth Frew and look at the strong muscles she has from milking cows and she's only 17.

9 May 1946 - Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy 1900-46, abdicated.

Victor Emmanuel's removal of Mussolini as Prime Minister in 1943 came too late to save him once the war was over. It was felt that for too long he had stood by while the fascist government turned Italy into a near totalitarian state and dragged it into a war it could not win. Even after Mussolini's dismissal the King failed to regain full public confidence by not joining the Allies immediately, it was six weeks before Italy declared war on Germany.

In 1944 he resigned most of his powers to his son Umberto who ruled as de facto Regent, but this wasn't enough. In March 1946 the newly installed government announced a referendum to decide on a Republic or the continuation of the Monarchy. King Victor Emmanuel decided to abdicate to give his son and the Monarchy a better chance of victory.

King Umberto II reigned for just five weeks. The referendum held on 2-3 June resulted in a narrow victory for a Republic 54%-46% and Umberto was deposed on 13 June.

The two Kings, father and son, sought exile in Egypt where the elder died 18 months later.

Didn't they change the gun laws in Ny City Tommy. Someone said that it had a very positive affect on crime by doing it.

Yes, Tom.  As the Tarot card #13 shows, Death tramples all, king and peasant alike.

10 May 1403 - Katherine, Duchess of Lancaster, died.

Better known as Katherine Swynford, the mistress and later third wife of John, Duke of Lancaster "John of Gaunt".

She was a widow of about 21 with two children when she became the mistress of the Duke of Lancaster. He was in his second marriage, so the four children she bore him in the 1370s were illegitimate. His wife died in 1394 and two years later he married Katherine. Duke John died in 1399 and Katherine four years later.

Their children took the surname Beaufort and were legitimated by the Pope in 1396 and by King Richard II the following year, this act was to have enormous consequences nearly 90 years later.

In 1407 King Henry IV, son of Duke John, while recognizing his half-siblings legitimacy, specifically excluded them from the succession.

Fast forward to the 1480s and we find that the Lancastrian claimant to the English Throne is Henry Tudor who based his claim on his descent from John of Lancaster and Katherine through their eldest son, John, Earl of Somerset (1372-1410). Henry used the Papal and Royal recognition in 1396/97 of his great-grandfather to lay his claim, while ignoring Henry IV's Act of 1407 excluding him and his descendents from the succession. 

Spot on. Henry Tudor knew his bloodline claim was suspect, so he also claimed the Crown by right of conquest after the battle of Bosworth just to make sure.

I think the stories around the Sussexes baby will die down, gender neutral sounds very PC but in reality he will be raised the way the (modern) Royal Family would expect of someone close to the Throne. This isn't California!