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SubjectRe: Queen mother (of Britain) has died
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Date2002-04-03 19:55 (2002-04-03 19:55)
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On Wed, 3 Apr 2002 14:32:53 +0000 (UTC), "Arkady" <Redarkady@hotmail.com>wrote:

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"AC" <spam@nospam.com>wrote in message news:3caa2f50.81360249@news2.randori.com...

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On Tue, 02 Apr 2002 21:58:18 GMT, "Jette Goldie" <jetteREMOVE@blueyonder.co.uk>wrote:

Jette Goldie
"David Flood" <NOSPAMmaoltuile@utvinternet.ie>wrote

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President Blair will have a bigger jet ordered, and maybe a bigger country retreat.

David Flood
I should think he'd find it hard to better the Royal collection of

Jette Goldie
palaces,

David Flood
feudal fiefdoms, RAF transport squadron, Royal train etcetc.

Jette Goldie
No Royal train, no Royal plane, yacht sits in Leith as a tourist attraction, no more to sail the waves.

I take it you didn't see Blair's recent attempt to get himself "BlairForce One"? Fancier and more expensive than ANY Royal transport of previous days - till the Chancellor of the Exchequer nixed it!

AC
Well, maybe Brits won't have to worry about the Monarchy much longer. The Windsors will be replaced by a bunch of vampiric Eurocrats and Continental judiciaries, finally completing Napoleon's invasion of Britain a couple of centuries late.

Arkady
Paranoid Europhobia aside, studying Napoleonic history actually brought me to the conclusion that Bonaparte's defeat was a historical tragedy.

To some extent I agree with you. However, Napoleon was not the democratic darling that he had everybody believe. By marrying a Habsburg, he was not attempting to bring democracy to the Germans, most scholars agree that he was seeking no less than the rejuvination of the Holy Roman Empire with himself as a new Charlemagne. I can well understand the Brits and Prussians being more than a little upset about the thought of a French military genius holding the reigns of both the Revolution and the only thing that ever came close to a European Empire.

--- AaronC

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