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Why would anyone want to kill this king?

laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
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Was he not beloved of his people?imageimage

Poor Mrs. Nicholson-ready to brave the king with her knife
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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics
is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato

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  • SwKSwK Posts: 378
    great story - life is u never stop learning - which book of charactures was this print from

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  • laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    The Life and works of Shelley by Peck, the 1927 edition.
    One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics
    is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,847 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Why would anyone want to kill this man? >>

    Well, he looks pretty good when he's struck in gold (who wouldn't?). Not sure he was so appealing in the flesh.

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  • WillieBoyd2WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,269 ✭✭✭✭✭
    She kind of looks like him.

    I wonder...

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  • JamesMurrayJamesMurray Posts: 4,036 ✭
    More than one English king came to an odd end , check out what happened to Edward ll
  • harashaharasha Posts: 3,113 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Actually, he was one of the better sovereigns of Britain, in my opinion. And yes, I believe overall he was well liked.
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  • laserartlaserart Posts: 2,255 ✭
    Maybe he was killed because he wouldn't stay out of the kitchen.
    "If I had a nickel for every nickel I ever had, I'd have all my nickels back".
  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 14,068 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think he smelled really bad, never took a bath and the people around him just coudn't hang.....Had to get rid of the stinky guy....
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  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>More than one English king came to an odd end , check out what happened to Edward ll >>



    Yeah, he got it in the odd end all right, in more ways than one and in finality also.
    Tir nam beann, nan gleann, s'nan gaisgeach ~ Saorstat Albanaich a nis!
  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It is easy for Americans to dislike GIII, but really he was not so bad as a monarch as many others. Indeed he was a very simple man of slightly less than normal intelligence but he was smart enough to have surrounded his governance with people of higher intelligence that set Britain on a course to go into the 19th century at a paramount. He shared much in common with his great granddaughter Victoria, they were both simple people but had great people working for them. There were a couple of monarchs now largely forgotten, GIV and WIV from 1820-1837 that could have been much harm to the monarchy and Britain as a whole had they reigned longer, mercifully their reigns were shortened which would lead thence to a very long and prosperous reign for Victoria.
    Tir nam beann, nan gleann, s'nan gaisgeach ~ Saorstat Albanaich a nis!
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