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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...
...personally selected Jane Mynors' nursery school in west London, but still could not help asking Mynors, "You will look after him?" For his part, Prince William, 3, maintained his regal composure last week as he became the first heir to the British throne to attend kindergarten. Arriving with the obviously anxious Prince Charles and Princess Diana, William politely shook hands with his teacher and turned obediently to wave a hand at the horde of journalists. Then, without fuss or fidget, the royal pupil disappeared into the basement classroom, where he began an introductory curriculum of paper and clay modeling, painting...