From: jondyoungsaddictioncounselor@gmail.com
On Sunday, September 11, 2022 at 12:35:17 PM UTC-5, Louis Epstein wrote:
> In alt.talk.royalty Louis Epstein wrote:
> >
> > The Queen is dead,long live the King.
> >
> > The midpoint of her reign was May 24th 1987.
> A final milestone achieved a few days before Her Majesty's
> death was the length of her reign exceeding that of the
> combined and consecutive reigns of William IV and Victoria
> (June 26th 1830 to January 22nd 1901).
>
> Her Majesty lived 35,204 days,which would be matched by
> Charles III on April 3,2045
> the Prince of Wales on November 8,2078
> Prince George on December 10,2109
>
> Of course,if they could match Prince Philip's or the
> late Queen Mother's lifespan,they would live longer.
> > A final posting of this:
> >
> > Consider,if you would,the United Kingdom and Empire
> > as they were on July 8th 1881.
> >
> > Queen Victoria,under 7 weeks past 62,was on the throne;
> > she was over five years from her Golden Jubilee,her Diamond Jubilee
> > would be ten years after that.The future Edward VII was more than 4
> > months short of 40 (the current Prince of Wales is under 3 months from 74),
> > the future George V was only 5 weeks past 16(the Duke of Cambridge is
> > over 2 months past 40--George V became Heir Apparent at 35 when all
> > his children were younger than Princess Charlotte is now,and George VI
> > was Heir Presumptive at the Duke's present age),not yet Duke of York,
> > and not yet heir apparent to his father;nor was his elder
> > brother (who had over a decade to live) yet 18.
> > The future Archbishop of Canterbury who would crown King Edward was
> > Bishop of Exeter.The oldest British royal was George III's daughter-in-law
> > the Duchess of Cambridge (Augusta of Hesse-Cassel),born 1797 and with
> > over seven and a half years to live.
> >
> > The Church of England dioceses of Birmingham,Blackburn,Bristol,
> > Coventry,Chelmsford,Derby,Guildford,Leicester,Newcastle,Portsmouth,
> > St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich,Sheffield,and Southwark did not yet
> > exist...nor did those of Bradford and Wakefield,now abolished,
> > or that of Southwell,from which Derby would one day be severed.That of
> > Liverpool was under a year and a half old.
> >
> > Lloyd George,Macdonald,and Baldwin were teenagers,
> > Chamberlain was twelve and Churchill was six years old,
> > and no later Prime Minister(including Attlee)
> > had yet been born (nor had any person in the world alive after 1999).
> > Keir Hardie,who years later would found the original Scottish
> > Labour Party,then the Independent Labour Party,and then the Labour
> > Party proper,was aged twenty-four and would not be an MP for over
> > a decade.
> >
> > William Gladstone (born 1809) was the only living person who had been
> > Prime Minister (years younger than his predecessors).His government
> > had not yet sought passage of the Representation of the People Act 1884
> > (which would for the first time enable most men to vote),which would
> > be followed by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 (which would establish
> > the norm of single-member constituencies) which would first come into
> > effect with the following election.(The secret ballot had been law
> > for nine years).
> > Women would not vote in a General Election for over thirty-seven years.
> > Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot(born 1803),Father of the House of Commons,
> > had been a member since 1830...before any of the Reform Bills.(Charles
> > James Mahon,born 1800,had been a member discontinuously since then).
> >
> > Lord Coleridge (born 1820) was Lord Chief Justice,and had been
> > the last Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (a position abolished
> > by the Judicature Act of 1873).The 1st Lord Esher(born 1815 or 1817,
> > sources disagree) had yet to become Master of the Rolls.The Royal
> > Courts of Justice building was under construction and today's Old
> > Bailey would not open for decades.
> >
> > Many of the Colonies had yet to be colonized,Hong Kong was over a
> > decade from adding the New Territories.
> >
> > Battleships that would be scrapped as obsolete in the reign of Edward VII
> > had yet to be laid down,nor had either HMS Victoria,which would sink in
> > an 1893 collision,or the ironclad HMS Camperdown,which would sink it.
> > Ships built with sailing rigs were still in the active fleet,
> > some with wooden hulls were still performing reserve and training
functions,
> > and it was years before HMS Temeraire would make port under sail alone
> > for the final time.
> >
> > The Admirals of the Fleet included Sir George Sartorius(born
> > 1790,a commander in 1812 and post-captain in 1814),and
> > Sir Provo Wallis (born 1791,a lieutenant 1808,and commander 1813);
> > Sartorius had been a midshipman on HMS Tonnant at Trafalgar in 1805
> > nearly 9 years before Francis Scott Key's visit to that ship led to
> > "The Star-Spangled Banner" being written,witnessed the surrender of
> > Napoleon,commanded a fleet in the Portugese Civil War of the 1830s,
> > and risen through the admiral ranks starting in 1849;Wallis had
> > taken temporary command of HMS Shannon when it captured USS
> > Chesapeake in 1813.
> > The 1st Baron Strathnairn(born 1801) was a Field Marshal,
> > while Sir Richard Dacres(born 1799),the 3rd Earl of Lucan
> > (born 1800,a lieutenant colonel 1826),who had ordered the
> > Charge of the Light Brigade,and three men born in 1804
> > had yet to receive promotion to that rank.
> >
> > The eldest Dukes included the 6th of Northumberland(b. 1810,
> > great-great-great-grandfather of the 11th and the current 12th Duke)
> > the 2nd of Wellington(b. 1807,elder brother of the great-great-grandfather
> > of the present 9th Duke born 1945,an MP 1829 and army major 1830),
> > the 7th of Devonshire(b. 1808,great-great-great-grandfather of the
> > present 12th duke born 1944,he had first become an MP in 1829 and
> > a peer in 1834),the 5th of Buccleuch/7th of Queensberry(b. 1806,
> > succeeded in 1819,a Knight of the Garter since 1835,great-great-great-
> > grandfather of the present 12th Duke),the 12th of Somerset(b. 1804,
> > second cousin of the great-great-great-grandfather of the current 19th
Duke),
> > and the 4th (and last) of Cleveland (born 1803).
> > The 1st Duke of Abercorn,so created in 1868,had succeeded to the
> > Marquessate thereof in 1818 and been a Knight of the Garter since 1844.
> > The 3rd Marquess of Donegall (born 1797) was alive and would be
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