Word: thrones
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Queen said she would like to avoid "an Edward VII situation," referring to her great-grandfather, who had spent much of his life ogling ballerinas and sipping champagne before Queen Victoria's death belatedly brought him to the throne at the age of 59. "It might be wise," said the Queen, according to her biographer Robert Lacey, "to abdicate at a time when Charles could do better." Said Philip jokingly: "You might be right. The doctors will keep you alive so long...
...became Edward III. The four other English abdications were also under pressure. Richard II and Henry VI were forced out by political rivals during the Wars of the Roses; James II was expelled in 1688 because he had converted to Roman Catholicism; and Edward VIII gave up his throne in 1936 because of the widespread opposition to his marrying an American divorcee, Wallis Simpson...
...sole example of a prince who spent most of a lifetime in waiting. George IV was 58, and his daughter already dead, when he finally became King in 1820. His younger brother, William IV, was no less than 65, and both his daughters dead, when he reached the throne in 1830. Some famous heirs never reached it at all. Edward, the Black Prince of Wales, who conquered the French at Poitiers in 1356, lived to be 46 without succeeding his father, Edward...
...only is the Queen in excellent health, but she seems to enjoy her regal function and certainly performs it well. "After more than 30 years on the throne, she knows more about power and politics than most politicians," says a source close to Buckingham Palace. "And although the Queen is theoretically 'advised' by ministers, she can, behind the scenes, advise ministers." Some political soothsayers speculate that she may, in fact, have a key role to play in helping to pick a new Prime Minister if no party wins a majority in the next national election, probably...
...their twelve-day trip to Australia, Charles was the center of a political brouhaha at home. Rod Hackney, an architect who advises Charles on community planning, had told the press that the Prince was deeply concerned about urban and racial unrest and did not want to succeed to the throne of a divided Britain. It came out that the Prince, who has recently been depicted as something of a royal layabout, has actually been making clandestine visits to the homeless of London and seeking advice on how to remedy inner-city decay. Critics of the government applauded, while Conservatives gave...