[Sca-cooks] 50 years of Queen Elizabeth II

[Mike Newton]

Okay I should have said 50 years of one sovereign uninterrupted.

Thorbjorn
Yankee  through and through.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Jones." <craig.jones at airservices.gov.au>
To: "sca-cooks" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] 50 years of Queen Elizabeth II


> Glenda States:
>
> >In Australia the populace likes her so much we voted to not become a
> >republic recently. And there's the added bonus of her wonderful 101yo
> >mother.
>
> Yeah hangon here...  If the vote was a straight monachy vs republic
> vote then the republic would have prevailed but the whole vote was
> derailed because some pro-republic people voted against because of the
> model of republic chosen...
>
> I'm English & Australian by birth, and believe that Great Britain
> works well on the Westminster political system but that it's time for
> Australia to move on.
>
> >Just a bit of a point of order, though - the British monarchy has
> been
> >uninterrupted since Charles II - if a monarch dies, the new monarch
> is
> >immediately in place - heard it on a documentary about St Georges
> chapel
> >last night - the garter knight's banners are removed when they die,
> but the
> >monarch's banner stays put.
>
> Agree with you on that one.  We have to be getting close to 500 year
> anniversary of the interregnum...
>
> Drakey.
>
> Obligatory fud content:  The is a really scrummy cafe, The Republic,
> downstairs from my work that does the nicest cappachinos I have ever
> drink and makes chocolate crackles with lindt chocolate.  Oh Yumbo...
>
>
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