Re: Modern History

[Padraic Brown <pbrown@nova.umuc.edu>]

On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, John Cowan wrote:
> 
> Like most royals, Victoria Maria Alicia had lots of names, but she
> took the throne as "Victoria" and reigned till old age.
> Her husband was a member of the minor English peerage named
> Albert de la Pole, with both military and mercantile ancestors.
> Early in Victoria's reign, Albert resumed, by Royal Proclamation,
> the name of his ancestral family, which then became the dynastic
> name of Victoria's descendants, including the current Monarch.

I suppose the prime consideration here is: was she _amused_? ;-)  I like
this -- a very nice transcontinual convergence.  The names are the same,
and all that, but the history is _utterly different_ (no Saxe-Coburg-
Gothas and all that lot).  Nice piece of work! 

[I suppose she joined the host of the dead in 1901, leaving it all to
Edward?]

Are there king lists for England and Scotland *there*?

Padraic.

> 
> The name?
> 
> Plantagenet.
> 
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> John Cowan					cowan@ccil.org
> 		e'osai ko sarji la lojban.
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