https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5os9bT9zuo

His comments about US vs Canadian vs UK politics are interesting.

I personally disagree with him because, while the USA’s system is far from perfect, I assert it is, according to many Brits I’ve talked with, much much harder to get them to pay attention to the plebiscite. The notion that the government has your “representatives” there and listening to you is not at all engendered by the behavior of the government.

The USA, they do tend to listen to certain loud voices more than the typical bunch, they do, at least, fear our wrath. Just look at the 1-6 commission. The whole thing — totalling only hundreds of citizens, clearly has them utterly terrified.

He died four years prior to the war. The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia expired 11 years before he ascended the throne. Joseph Chamberlain’s attempts to negotiate an alliance with Germany occurred during the but end of his mother’s reign.

He changed his name from Albert, his father’s, to Edward.

He was christened ‘Albert Edward’.

Did you check the footnotes on any of these contentions?

No, you understand the issue of the screenwriter.

Even the humanizing elements like his love for The Goon Show and Charles and Camilla calling each other “Fred” and “Gladys” are cringeworthy.

He and his wife have nicknames they use. And he likes a particular radio commentary. That’s your idea of ‘cringeworthy’.

Charles and some of the other royals have all the entitlement of other aristocrats without the sense of duty that the late queen had.

What gives you the idea they lack a sense of ‘duty’? Do you have any clue what any of them do all day?

https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-hiding-potentially-explosive-records-on-jeffrey-epstein-internet-sleuth-claims-after-foia-denial

Edward VII was also nicknamed “Edward the Caresser,” a takeoff on Edward the Confessor (d. 1066), one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of what is now England. As you probably know, Fast Eddie’s long-term mistress Alice Keppel was the great-grandmother of Charles’ girlfriend-on-the-side Camilla.

The one scandalous royal left out of the thread so far is the late Queen’s youngest uncle, George, Duke of Kent. He joined the RAF in the early years of WWII and was killed in a military plane crash in Scotland in 1942. There is still some mystery surrounding that crash, leading to rumors of the sort that arose after Princess Diana’s death– that the royal family wanted its black sheep out of the way and arranged for the “accident” (now generally attributed to a navigational error by the crew). George, who was the artsy member of an otherwise stuffy family, was a tom cat in the 1920s– he had affairs with both women and men (including Noel Coward) before and after his marriage. He had an illegitimate child by a woman who reportedly introduced him to heroin and morphine. There is a 2005 Channel 4 documentary titled “The Queen’s Lost Uncle” about Prince George:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK8z5b4NJ3o&ab_channel=TheBeauMonde