Sister Morphine said:
He didn't arrange anything to the best of my knowledge, and I think I've been reading the news on this forum pretty faithfully. He's the heir to the throne.
Actually, William has approved of his armed service contract. He won't be doing his entire duty with the army, but spread himself around with the other services to get the 'feel'. So, I feel he shouldn't have spoken a lot about bravery and being with his men knowing that there were talks on how his military career was going to be laid out, unlike his past heir apparents who were in battles. This, however, is Harry's thread and William's lack of service to his country in Iraq or any other war torn country that Britain is involved in should be in William's thread.
Princess Beatrice, I believe. I don't know how her parents would react to that.
Let us not forget about Andrew as he also was the spare to heir. He could also serve as a monarch. Then again, where does Sarah fit into this and Andrew on the throne without a Queen would prove to be interesting. In regards to Beatrice, she tends to likes her lot in life and appreciates who and what she is according to several interviews she was involved in. Even though Elizabeth was much younger when her father came to power, nobody would have thought about having her as a Queen one day as Edward VIII was suppose to sit on the throne.
wbenson said:
If there ever were a three year old monarch, the next person in the line of succession to the throne would act as regent until the monarch became of age. There is also a provision that if an underage succession to the crown occurs when the Queen dies (highly unlikely, unless Charles, William, Harry, Andrew, and Beatrice were to suddenly predecease the Queen), that the Duke of Edinburgh acts as regent for the new monarch.
Don't know, but she would probably lose her head in the towers like her ancestors the two princes.
Of course, I don't know of any 'dark' princes in the Windsor family, unless....of course, Prince Michael and his family!!! Yes, has there ever been a King Frederick of Great Britain (not meaning to sound as though his family is 'dark')?
kpusa1981 said:
As I recall around the time William was going to be graduating from Sandhurst his soon to be commander said that William would possibly be deployed. I also happened know that there is shortage of trained personal in Armoured Resse. The press could be covering a possible deployment of William to somewhere maybe Afganistan in October or somewhere else Kosovo or Germany before in first year of service is over. Probably not for a full deployment maybe three months of it.
He definitely needs to go and see some action before changing out to the other part of his military plan.
kjrn said:
...There is no way that William "found a way" to get out of serving in Iraq "by arranging his armed service duties the way he did."
I hope we all don't find out that perhaps he did knowing that he would avoid the 'danger zone'. He sounded sincere during an interview about serving. Yet, his military service path has seen him being 'familiarizing' with other military units. That is needed. His uncles didn't do it to be monarchs, nor did his father.
Ysbel said:
Every war has had their share of terrorists. Its been a pretty standard tool of warfare to plant bombs, use spies, sabotage enemy operations, do whatever it takes to dishearten and demoralize the enemy. The tagline that this isn't a normal war has been used by every government to excuse their own rather questionable tactics when in reality, the only thing new is the technology being used.
So true, even when the first warring party attacked with catapults, that was considered new technology.[/quote]
Skydragon said:
How about an extra scimitar, with 2 SAS men and a bodyguard driving it, oh and a great big flag with an arrow, saying 'Harry is here'.
How funny!! Can you see Harry now smiling and painting that arrow directed at that extra scimitar saying 'Harry is here'?
