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I'm just thrilled they're having a child. I think that's cool. Not because they're royals or something like that but I just think couples having children is cool.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Y'know what would be awesome? It it turned out to be an alien in disquise and grew up to rule britain.

Except the British head of state has no real power in Britain.

 d-usa wrote:
I for one take comfort in knowing that the royal penis proved fully functional and that the royal family was able to introduce some new genetic material into the royal gene pool, something that is certainly much needed in European royalty.

This is an excellent point, Look at it from William's shoes, goddess knows it's hard to find a Princess/Any one with a title who isn't at least your second cousin at this point so there's really no choice left but to go after a commoner.

 Goliath wrote:

 Rainbow Dash wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Dude, Really?

yes really, why should I care about someone I don't know having a child
its no different to me then if you had said some random woman living in some random country was having a child
but in this case, this woman is a royal, so for some reason I am told to care more...news flash, I don't
just a woman, and its just a baby

In that case why would you care when "Princess Cadance" has a foal? I'm fairly sure you don't know her*, yet you apparently would care if she gave birth.



*what with the problem with the lack of actually existing.[/quote

she's a magical pony not a random human... (it was a joke)

 purplefood wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Y'know what would be awesome? It it turned out to be an alien in disquise and grew up to rule britain.

Except the British head of state has no real power in Britain.

Once again, something that is trotted out all the time, usually without anything to back it up. The Queen has power. It's just customary that she doesn't exercise it because we have been a stable country for the last couple of centuries. It's like saying that we don't have a nuclear deterrent because we've never nuked anyone. The Queen has a constitutional role in the business of government; She gives permission for the formation of governments and grants royal assent to legislation, meaning that she could refuse to permit either. It's basically our final brake on the excesses of mob rule. How do people that grow up in a country not know how it is run? I find that incredible.

 Albatross wrote:

 purplefood wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Y'know what would be awesome? It it turned out to be an alien in disquise and grew up to rule britain.

Except the British head of state has no real power in Britain.

Once again, something that is trotted out all the time, usually without anything to back it up. The Queen has power. It's just customary that she doesn't exercise it because we have been a stable country for the last couple of centuries. It's like saying that we don't have a nuclear deterrent because we've never nuked anyone. The Queen has a constitutional role in the business of government; She gives permission for the formation of governments and grants royal assent to legislation, meaning that she could refuse to permit either. It's basically our final brake on the excesses of mob rule. How do people that grow up in a country not know how it is run? I find that incredible.

So in the future if Willy got a wild hair he could kick Parliament to the curb and rule ye olde style?

Because it's pretty much a ceremonial role nowadays and a formality we keep hanging around

 Albatross wrote:

 purplefood wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Y'know what would be awesome? It it turned out to be an alien in disquise and grew up to rule britain.

Except the British head of state has no real power in Britain.

Once again, something that is trotted out all the time, usually without anything to back it up. The Queen has power. It's just customary that she doesn't exercise it because we have been a stable country for the last couple of centuries. It's like saying that we don't have a nuclear deterrent because we've never nuked anyone. The Queen has a constitutional role in the business of government; She gives permission for the formation of governments and grants royal assent to legislation, meaning that she could refuse to permit either. It's basically our final brake on the excesses of mob rule. How do people that grow up in a country not know how it is run? I find that incredible.

Cuz politicz iz boring lol, in all seriousness I don't find find politics that interesting about 95% of the time, I know it's important but there's so many better things I would rather spend my free time with.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
We american have those, They are Called Ambassadors, And we dont go bonkers over their everyday life.

You go bonkers over your presidents instead.

As much as a monarchy is a weird historical relic, it does seperate the need people have to love their national institutions from the political nitty gritty, which is nice.

 Albatross wrote:

 purplefood wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Y'know what would be awesome? It it turned out to be an alien in disquise and grew up to rule britain.

Except the British head of state has no real power in Britain.

Once again, something that is trotted out all the time, usually without anything to back it up. The Queen has power. It's just customary that she doesn't exercise it because we have been a stable country for the last couple of centuries. It's like saying that we don't have a nuclear deterrent because we've never nuked anyone. The Queen has a constitutional role in the business of government; She gives permission for the formation of governments and grants royal assent to legislation, meaning that she could refuse to permit either. It's basically our final brake on the excesses of mob rule. How do people that grow up in a country not know how it is run? I find that incredible.

She has no real power.
What we have is an understanding.
The monarchy agrees not to say no and parliament agrees to let the monarchy remain as head of state.

 Albatross wrote:

 purplefood wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Y'know what would be awesome? It it turned out to be an alien in disquise and grew up to rule britain.

Except the British head of state has no real power in Britain.

Once again, something that is trotted out all the time, usually without anything to back it up. The Queen has power. It's just customary that she doesn't exercise it because we have been a stable country for the last couple of centuries. It's like saying that we don't have a nuclear deterrent because we've never nuked anyone. The Queen has a constitutional role in the business of government; She gives permission for the formation of governments and grants royal assent to legislation, meaning that she could refuse to permit either. It's basically our final brake on the excesses of mob rule. How do people that grow up in a country not know how it is run? I find that incredible.

Firstly, figurehead or not, I think an alien superbeing would rule the Empire regardless.

Second, I imagine that if the Queen actually tried to exercise her power and veto something, the public would quickly find itself no longer needing an inherited head of state.

Hopefully get a day off work, but I'm not overly fussed one way or the other.

I'll be avoiding the tabloids even more than I normally do though.

I can't say I mind either way. I'm Scottish so I naturally don't care about the Royal Family. Although good for them and I hope it all goes well etc.

However I too will be dodging the tabloids/news as much as possible. As we will have to revise the following situation.

Original: Beatles bigger than Jesus.

Revised: The Royal Baby, bigger than The Beatles and Jesus combined.

 Rysaer wrote:
I can't say I mind either way. I'm Scottish so I naturally don't care about the Royal Family.

Is it that or are the Scots a little hurt about the previous Scottish royal family getting run out by the Dutch royal family

 Grey Templar wrote:

 Rysaer wrote:
I can't say I mind either way. I'm Scottish so I naturally don't care about the Royal Family.

Is it that or are the Scots a little hurt about the previous Scottish royal family getting run out by the Dutch royal family

Ha ha, nah I'm not too hurt about that, I just don't really buy in to the whole Royal Family thing, I might be a member of the UK but that doesn't mean I have to care

Also if I'm ever asked 'where I come from?' my answer is always Scotland, not the UK.

Alright, let's settle this. Albatross and Purps, esteemed ambassadors of the Empire, the colonies that ceded from Her Majesty's glorious empire, and all lands that flew under the flag of the conglomeration known as the United States of America do formally petition the Crown in her wisdom and understanding to accept us back into the Empire.

If you accept on behalf of your countrymen, then we shall summarily execute the cast of the Jersey Shore and ask permission to suddenly give a gak about Kate and William's future offspring.

We should probably execute the cast of the Jersey Shore just in the name of all free peoples in the world.

 Alfndrate wrote:
Alright, let's settle this. Albatross and Purps, esteemed ambassadors of the Empire, the colonies that ceded from Her Majesty's glorious empire, and all lands that flew under the flag of the conglomeration known as the United States of America do formally petition the Crown in her wisdom and understanding to accept us back into the Empire.

If you accept on behalf of your countrymen, then we shall summarily execute the cast of the Jersey Shore and ask permission to suddenly give a gak about Kate and William's future offspring.

No deal. I like Jersey Shore. It's quaint. We could arrange to have them transported to Australia, if that would suit?

Regards,

The United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland

The Colonies do hereby accept such terms. We have shipped them to Italy, and we can ship them to a land down under, where the women glow and the men plunder.

When should we discuss renaming the land?

Signed,
The Colonies, Formerly known as the United States of America.

 Alfndrate wrote:
The Colonies do hereby accept such terms. We have shipped them to Italy, and we can ship them to a land down under, where the women glow and the men plunder.

When should we discuss renaming the land?

Signed,
The Colonies, Formerly known as the United States of America.

Dear Colonies,

Please feel free to name yourselves however you see fit. You'll find that the British Empire has changed a lot since you left. It's smaller, for one thing. No, we're not into that whole 'taxation without representation' stuff anymore, we're more like Starbucks now - consider yourselves a franchise! Run the United Kingdom of America at your discretion and send us a percentage of the profits at the end of each month - in return you get proper tea and a cool accent. We don't micro-manage.

We do have an old bill for a load of ruined tea floating around somewhere, but we can put that to one side and deal with it once you've put out all the fires in the mid-west. And Boston.

Big Kiss!

Your Pals,

The British Empire

Will the kid have a royal title? Who decides what it will be?

Prince William was always JUST PW, but before his wedding became the Duke of Cambridge, Earl of Strathearn and Baron Carrickfergus. Where did that name come from?

When do you get the full title? Get hitched? Will the kid be just "Prince/Princess ____" for now?

 kronk wrote:
Will the kid have a royal title? Who decides what it will be?

Prince William was always JUST PW, but before his wedding became the Duke of Cambridge, Earl of Strathearn and Baron Carrickfergus. Where did that name come from?

When do you get the full title? Get hitched? Will the kid be just "Prince/Princess ____" for now?

Believe so could they name the kid Prince

Im still confused why you dont have a king.

The British ambassador can correct me, but I believe it is because George, the Queen's father had no sons, and Elizabeth was crowned Queen due to the lack of a male heir. I heard that King is considered a higher rank, and since Queen Elizabeth is the heir, granted Phillip the title of King would mean he would technically have more power than Elizabeth, the rightful "ruler" of the Kingdom.

Phillip is her hubby and was given the title Prince after she was crowned Queen. Charles or William would be King though.

When/If William is crowned King, Kate would become Queen as that is the title bestowed to the King's consort, but the reverse is not true.

The queen became the monarch, as a result her husband is only a prince.
But if a woman marries the king they become queen for some reason

So Will Prince William Become King?

Yes he would.

Edit: www.royal.gov.uk is an interesting site on this stuff, I particularly liked this:

There are no obligatory codes of behaviour when meeting The Queen or a member of the Royal Family...

I'm going to meet the queen, and say, "Wassup mah dawg?"

Well Prince Charles is next in line and would be King as he is a male successor, the next in line is then William would is also a male heir to the throne

Hmm, So if the male is of royal blood, he becomes a king.
His wife becomes queen.
But if he is not of royal blood he can only be a prince.
What does it say about the title of Queen mean when someone not of royal blood can obtain it?
There is a gender issue in there somewhere, i just have to find it.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Hmm, So if the male is of royal blood, he becomes a king.
His wife becomes queen.
But if he is not of royal blood he can only be a prince.
What does it say about the title of Queen mean when someone not of royal blood can obtain it?
There is a gender issue in there somewhere, i just have to find it.

For the record Prince Philip (QEII's husband) is of royal blood (Greek mainly IIRC)
And yes whoever the King marries is queen, unless they're Catholic or divorced before hand