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OFF THE HOOK?

Prompt: A second Royal Baby will soon be joining the Windsors in England. Would you rather be an heir to the throne or an off the hook sibling?

The romanticized royalness of the British elite from an American point of view, is totally created by the media. The reality is probably most different and not nearly as perfect and glossy.

In the news today is this item: The University of Leicester has studied the DNA of Richard III and found that there could be a break in the royal bloodline.

Scientists were intrigued to find the DNA did not match, suggesting a 'non-paternity event' somewhere between Edward III and his descendants. Someone was illegitimate.

The politics and intrigues are piled one upon the other until there is no true reality, only an accepted consensus. However, my personal belief is that Diana and her two sons are more 'royal' than Charles and his second wife. I admire Harry because he's off the hook and behaves mostly in a very warm and compassionate style like his mother. I wonder how long this idea of monarchy will endure in these unsettled times.

Where I am in Belize, did you know that Queen Elizabeth's face is on all the currency and coins? Somehow the dregs of the British Empire are still present in many, many parts of this world.

Happy in the Caribbean, far from the drama of the Royals...>>>iggy

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