Welcome to UK constitutional law! It’s a mess. Your country has a crazy leader, but at least your constitution is clear (please please please let him follow it).

No, it’s not the position itself. The Crown = the State, but neither the monarch nor the monarchy = the State. I normally disdain wikipedia, but this article is not bad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crown

I know you don’t mean it in this way, and the show doesn’t help matters, but the monarch is NOT the same thing as the Crown. This is important for many reasons, most importantly that the monarch does not own either the Crown Estates or the Duchy of Lancaster in her own right; she owns them on behalf of the nation.

Yup. Caroline of Monaco stays married to that scumbag Prince Ernst, purely so she can stay HRH (as opposed to HSH). This is a weird, weird group of people.

Victoria was ITV, not the BBC. BBC had Poldark and ITV’s Victoria came from nowhere to beat it in the coveted Sunday night drama slot (less rape and more Sewell helped, IMO).

Repeating, since potterpoet deleted my post the first time:

Trying again, since you deleted my post the first time.

Yup. It’s an excellent heater, and an about adequate fan. The hair dryer is in no way worth the money (but it looks great).

Totally, totally agree about Colonel Fitzwilliam. He was such a lovely character in P&P. And you’re right that Maxwell Martin and Rhys had a gentle, married chemistry, but I wanted more, you know? That one brief moment of passion was great, but more like that please. (I suspect there was pretty much nothing that could…

I really liked Death Comes to Pemberley, but it made me feel like a bad feminist. I adore Anna Maxwell Martin, she’s a fabulous actress and I love seeing her in things. That said, she’s not my Elizabeth Bennet and I can think of so many actresses with whom Matthew Rhys would have had stunning, swooning chemistry…

Well it was cheap by comparison! The Crown cost $100m+, and Victoria cost £10m (which is expensive by UK TV standards).

For me, Victoria was all about Rufus Sewell and I didn’t give a toss once he left. Not sure if I’m ready for his appearance in S2, given the history.

I adore the Firth/Ehle P&P, but it was 22 years ago. I quite liked Consent and am intrigued by what Nina Raine could bring to the table.

It has nothing to do with Camilla’s being divorced. Camilla is married to Charles, who is the heir to the throne. She is technically the Princess of Wales, but she chooses not to use that title. When Charles becomes King, Camilla will automatically become Queen Consort. She may choose not to use that title and use…

You don’t have to believe me, but I have lived in the UK for over 15 years and work with people in government. People in the US care a lot more about Diana than people over here. And why should Charles step aside? He’s been an excellent Prince of Wales. He was prescient on environmental issues and he works a lot…

Diana has been dead for 20 years, and Charles has been campaigning for this for a long time. No one in power in the UK cares enough to counter him on it. There will be so much craziness when the Queen dies that this will slip in under the radar.

You can, if it meets the definition of a morganatic marriage, but these do not. Calling a marriage morganatic has consequences which are inherent in the definition and which no one wants. In the abdication crisis, Edward VIII was willing to marry Wallis morganatically. There was no prospect of children in that union,…

The “with the provision” part is part of the definition. You cannot have a morganatic marriage without those consequences. It simply isn’t one. It is an unequal marriage, but not a morganatic one.

There is no definition of morganatic marriage to which either Charles/Camilla or William/Kate applies, not in the Almanach de Gotha, the OED, or anywhere else. The term morganatic derived from the High German “morgangeba,” a gift by a groom to his bride on the morning following their wedding. It indicated that this…

It’s the joy of having an unwritten constitution. Marvellously flexible.