I should imagine the former, given that the second doesn't feature in it.
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I don't know. I can't see why he'd want to become King. Nor do I understand why the Queen doesn't abdicate in his favour like Beatrix of the Netherlands. Or maybe the plan is to bypass him in favour of his son, in the end.
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Peck of Arabia
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Apparently her life experiences have led her to abhor any notion of abdication. I can't remember where I heard it, but she views being queen as her duty and abdication as dereliction of that duty.
Peck of Arabia
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Yeah, you can imagine it being pretty impressionable stuff for a 10 year old.
From a constitutional point of view, too, abdication just isn't the done thing here, whereas in the Netherlands in the 20th century at least, it's fairly commonplace; Beatrix inherited when her mother abdicated and her mother inherited when her mother abdicated. It's just the done thing.
Maybe it is better to change monarchs more often now they're all pretty much guaranteed to live a long time, but I like Queenie, and given its practically a ceremonial position, does it really matter how old she is?
From a constitutional point of view, too, abdication just isn't the done thing here, whereas in the Netherlands in the 20th century at least, it's fairly commonplace; Beatrix inherited when her mother abdicated and her mother inherited when her mother abdicated. It's just the done thing.
Maybe it is better to change monarchs more often now they're all pretty much guaranteed to live a long time, but I like Queenie, and given its practically a ceremonial position, does it really matter how old she is?
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