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

[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?).

[slumber.livejournal.com]

Ohh, haha, that's kind of funny. :| They'd have been recognised anyway, though I guess when they want to, they CAN sort of keep things quiet, case in point Harry's little stint in the army. (Except, that wasn't a secret for very long either. :|)

[souliesoul.livejournal.com]

Harry is still in the army - it was just a deployment to er Afghanistan or Iraq that they wanted to keep quiet to prevent extra risk to him and his troops. William is also still in the military, but instead of selecting just one force, he seems to be giving them all a go. Presumably in preparation for when he's King, so that he can say he understands them all...

[slumber.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's what I meant-- except I didn't remember exactly where he went so I didn't mention it, lol. (Must've been Afghanistan because they didn't want him in Iraq, that part I knew.)

And totally off-topic-- is that Billie Piper in your icon?

[souliesoul.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is! :D (Er, in the above comment anyway. This is Katee Sackoff.)

[slumber.livejournal.com]

She's pretty there! Like. Sixties/seventies pretty! :P