From: radioacti...@gmail.com   
      
   The Queen [for 17 months now has been] dead!  Long live The King!   
      
   Well, while I sure am glad I've never been one of Charles III's subjects, I   
   HAVE always liked this improbably-good-natured, privileged-from-birth fellow,   
   once I started following the young then-Prince of Wales circa 1963.   
      
   And I was forevermore in Charles's sympathetic camp ever since he famously, as   
   teenager (and then still blissfully-future-harridan-Diana-free!) Prince   
   Charles, surreptitiously mailed that fan letter overseas to Mad Magazine*.    
   Thus I always hoped the    
   often-unfairly-ridiculed Charles would enjoy his OWN lengthy time on the   
   throne (ESPECIALLY after he set a new Brit record awaiting his reigning parent   
   to expire, thus eclipsing the future Edward VII's waiting for HIS mother to   
   die--eventually, as it    
   happened, on Tuesday, January 22, 1901 on the Isle of Wight--thus ending the   
   then-record-setting Victorian Era).   
      
   MEANWHILE:     
      
   IF (and I did type IF) I understand these arcane Anglo things, n   
   wadays-not-so-young Prince William doesn't by British law HAVE to choose   
   William V as his kingly moniker once he's ultimately crowned, even though   
   after that WOULD be the expected sequence    
   after William IV died thrusting young (and quite fertile) Victoria into 19th   
   AND 20th Century history.   
      
   Instead, rather than the somewhat, uh, common William V...Prince William can   
   instead go with, say, King Ringo, should he so choose.  Or King Clapton.  Or   
   King Elvis.  Or even King Sinatra** !   
      
   (Isn't that--if a bit irreverently--correct, Sir Epstein?)   
      
   BRYAN STYBLE/Florida   
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   * Anyone remember the year he (quite privately) posted that published envelope   
   to the Mad editors stateside?  I wanna say 1964, but I might be off by several   
   years on this one.   
   ** I suppose that's what little ol' me would select, were I in his regal shoes.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)