hey england--

[slumber]

Does your royal family have a last name? It can't just be Prince Charles and Queen Elizabeth and a string of first names with tagged-on nths to identify how original the name was, right? Can it? Am I to assume they are all Tudors? Or is Tudor not a last name but, like. A place of birth or something?

ETA: Windsor! It wasn't in Wikipedia when I checked, but it doesn't mean it isn't somewhere. :| :P

I don't even know why I started wondering, but I am direly uneducated and need immediate rectification. Will a Brit please educate me? Like, about the whole monarchy system thing.

Thanks!

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In other news, did you know that in France, women who wanted their marriages annulled used to bring matters to court, charging their husbands with impotence, so that the only recourse would be for the husband to prove in court that he was not impotent, and so therefore, as part of the court proceedings, masturbate in front of a so-called team of experts?

Of course, hardly (haha, no pun intended :|) anyone would actually be able to do that, so husbands who didn't want the humiliation that came with being proven to have a flaccid penis would demand a Trial by Congress, which is, essentially, a live show. Husband and wife had to show up at a ~neutral~ spot, and perform the act in front of the ~experts~, and there must be sufficient proof that they ejaculated, too.

I don't know how they thought that would help. :|

Let that sink in for a bit, and then I'll return to this wonderful, glorious, fantastically hysterical historical book.

PS. It's Napoleon's Privates. Tell your friends. :|

Comments

[wenelda.livejournal.com]

Scratch that. Here:

Yes, it's true, the British royal family changed their last name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor in 1917. The reason? World War One broke out in 1914 and anit-German sentiment was at its height in 1917. In protest, King George V renounced all the German titles belonging to him and his family and adopted the name of his castle, Windsor.

[daniellafromage.livejournal.com]

It's Windsor right now, and has been since...I think around WWI? It was Saxe-Coburg during Queen Victoria's reign, but was changed to Windsor in around 1914 because S-C is a German name and we were at war with them.

I think William and Harry used "Wales" while they were at school/uni (maybe as a way of going INCOGNITO?).

[squishtoy.livejournal.com]

vive le france?

[ensemble.livejournal.com]

LMFAO, I did NOT know that, but am glad that you have enlightened me!

IDK anything about the monarchy, even though I live there o__O I pretty much hate the whole thing.

[idroppedarice.livejournal.com]

Haha, a part of me doesn't believe you when you say Wikipedia doesn't have the answer. All I can think is, nah, she just didn't look in the right place! It must be there!

And you're kidding about the French thing right? Ha! Wow.