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   Rod Speed to governor.swill@gmail.com   
   Re: The Queen is dead -- Long live King    
   10 Sep 22 07:41:49   
   
   XPost: uk.politics.misc, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, can.politics   
   XPost: aus.politics   
   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   On Sat, 10 Sep 2022 05:19:35 +1000,  wrote:   
      
   > On Fri, 09 Sep 2022 17:21:21 +0100, Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >>> Anne and Big Ears didn't get to marry who they wanted to marry.   
   >>   
   >> Those were the Firm's rules, not HM's.   
   >   
   > Seems to me Charles ended up marrying exactly who he wanted to.   
      
   Only after having most of his life royally fucked over by   
   not being allowed to marry the one he wanted to marry.   
      
   > Perhaps he or William can modernize the law and allow heirs to marry   
   > at will instead of as approved.   
      
   Yep, that was always a terminal stupidity. And not just heirs either,   
   also actual kings. Tho that other one had nothing to do with Liz.   
      
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