From: blueshirt@indigo.news   
      
   Tim Merrigan wrote:   
      
   > On Fri, 3 May 2024 18:10:39 -0000 (UTC), "Keith F. Lynch"   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   > >Evelyn C. Leeper  wrote:   
   > >>   
   > >> Willie, Willie, Harry, Stee,   
   > >> Harry, Dick, John, Harry three;   
   > >> One two three Neds, Richard two,   
   > >> Harrys four five six, ... then who?   
   > >> Edwards four five, Dick the bad,   
   > >> Harrys (twain), Ned six (the lad);   
   > >> Mary, Bessie, James you ken,   
   > >> Then Charlie, Charlie, James again;   
   > >> Will and Mary, Anna Gloria,   
   > >> Georges four, Will four, Victoria;   
   > >> Edward seven, George and Ted,   
   > >> George the sixth, now Liz instead.   
   > >   
   > > Not quite.  Your list starts 958 years ago, and ends 2 years   
   > > ago, for a total of just 956 years.   
   > >   
   > > A thousand years ago England was ruled by a Dane whose   
   > > four-letter name has been amusing dyslexics for centuries.   
   > > Then came Harold, Harthacnut, Ed the zeroth (well, he was   
   > > the last Ed before Ed I, so what else would you call him?),   
   > > and another Harold.   
   > >   
   > > Your list also skips Jane, teenaged queen for nine days back   
   > > in '53.  How can anyone forget her?   
   >   
   > He also left out Cromwell.   
      
   Cromwell wasn't King... although he might have thought he was!   
      
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