King snubs Sussexes over Elizabeth II's death memorial
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Yeah I remember seeing Lord Mountbatten on a tv series describe the Russian revolution as “a terrible setback for my family.” There’s entitlement for you.
They’d have taken it anyway, but it would have been a lot messier than it was. And of course you know that in the British view the wogs begin at Calais.
Calais was once part of England until our Frenchie neighbours stole it from us (not to mention the entire western half of modern France, which England failed to get back during the Hundred Years War but is still rightfully English territory).
But it still comes in handy for Brits to quickly nip over and grab some cheap duty free booze.
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I think the French might dispute that, the Angevin empire you’re describing was run by the Plantagenet dynasty that originated in France and inherited the English throne some time in the 12th century, if memory serves. The French might equally claim England is rightfully their territory. Not that it matters anymore, it’s a long dead issue.
Nobody got a vote, except the thugs, thieves, and warlords who organized it all. Began with William the Conqueror, 1066 and all that, when the English throne became French, there were centuries of dynastic struggles over who got to sit on the English and French thrones, and great was the tumult thereof.
Began long before that. Norman the Norman just robbed another gang of German thugs.
Granted, I was taking a shorter view, the proximate roots of the Hundred Years War and the Wars of the Roses and all that medieval ferment.
