What would have happened if Prince Charles died?

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#2464748 18-Apr-2020 13:58

Harry is behind his brother and any of his brother's children and any of their (eventual) children. I don't think he is likely to get promoted unless there is a mad lunch massacre as happened in Nepal.

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#2464760 18-Apr-2020 14:08

frankv:

"What would have happend if Prince Charles died?"

A huge sigh of relief throughout the Empire.

Empire? Is that a Star Wars reference?

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#2464768 18-Apr-2020 14:28

kotuku4:

frankv:

"What would have happend if Prince Charles died?"

A huge sigh of relief throughout the Empire.

Empire? Is that a Star Wars reference?

A reference to the fact that anyone who cares about this is living at least one century ago.

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#2464769 18-Apr-2020 14:31

Bung: Harry is behind his brother and any of his brother's children and any of their (eventual) children. I don't think he is likely to get promoted unless there is a mad lunch massacre as happened in Nepal.

Harry & Meg are in the same position as Princess Margaret was after Charles was born... pretty much irrelevant to anything, but with some inherited celebrity and a lavish lifestyle.

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#2465436 19-Apr-2020 15:01

Rikkitic:

Is Harry still in the line of succession? I thought he resigned from all that.

I am not sure you can resign from that. You would have to accede to the throne then abdicate I think.

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#2465438 19-Apr-2020 15:03

evilengineer:

My preference is to just become a republic and then we wouldn't have to waste any time thinking about this nonsense. 😀

Yes, I for one think that President Richie McCaw or perhaps President Winston Peters would add so much to public life here....😇

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#2465450 19-Apr-2020 15:16

If Charlie died? There'd be one less royal bludger on the British tax payers.

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#2465527 19-Apr-2020 17:38

DarthKermit:
If Charlie died? There'd be one less royal bludger on the British tax payers.

And who picks up the tab when they visit us, yeap you got it.

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#2465529 19-Apr-2020 17:39

Geektastic:
evilengineer:

My preference is to just become a republic and then we wouldn't have to waste any time thinking about this nonsense. 😀

Yes, I for one think that President Richie McCaw or perhaps President Winston Peters would add so much to public life here....😇

We don't have to have a president. Could continue with an appointed Governor General.

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#2465581 19-Apr-2020 17:49

We don't have to have a president. Could continue with an appointed Governor General.

I think that's wrong. The Governor-General sits in for the Crown. We would have to change the title.

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#2465610 19-Apr-2020 18:49

We get to write the rules, and can call our head of state what we want and how they are selected.

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#2465613 19-Apr-2020 18:56

kotuku4: We get to write the rules, and can call our head of state what we want and how they are selected.

Yup, US States elect Governors. Dunno how a GG differs from a regular Governor, but regardless we can make the rules.

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#2465614 19-Apr-2020 18:57

Can someone fix the spelling/grammar in the title of this thread please? It’s doing the OCD part of my brain in.

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#2465662 19-Apr-2020 19:14

I would suggest that we would have a unitary Republic rather than a federal republic, nothing like the USA.

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#2465704 19-Apr-2020 20:58

Especially since the USA have just replaced a preoccupation with the lives of the royal family with the Kardashians. You don't always have much control over the way that nature fills a vacuum.

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