A couple of weeks in hospital is the ideal background for blog production. The "blogeur" is free to range over the vacnt lot that his heart is rapidly becoming and lets him speculate freely and allow an inpressive pile of of discards. What is left?. Here's one .....
The English Monarch.....
England became the country it used to be shortly before it was conquered by the French. After a couple of centuries of buggering about it packed up having English kings and left it to the Welsh for a couple more centuries when it changed to borrowing a king from Scotland. After the Scots we had a woman who was married to a Dutchman and finally settled on a German.
Germans have occupied the throne ever since and have made a jolly good job of it. But why have we never had an Englishman in charge? Probably because we are all much too nice......
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