Not tonight but, maybe someday soon, the United Kingdom is gonna party like it’s 1689.
As a small-r republican and a capital-A American down to my marrow, I don’t have much use for the British Royal Family. I don’t usually see anything about them aside from headlines in the Daily Mail during my morning scroll through lingerie-clad celebrities.
It’s also true that I don’t understand much how these royal lineages work. I get that the first-born royal becomes the Prince or Princess of Wales on their way to ascending the throne. Do I remember correctly that Philip could only be a prince because Queen Elizabeth was a woman, but that Camilla gets to be Queen because King Charles is a dude? I’m pretty sure, but by the time you get any further down — the Seventh Duke of Cumbersome, Lord Sumsuch of Thingy — I can’t […]
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