#34

Genuinely never seen it.

(I did get Fire & Blood for Christmas though)

#35

thought this thread was about papa roach

#36

It’s all about the CEO of Paperchase for me, not least because he’s got a triple-barrelled surname and has the title of “Earl of Minto”.

#37

How do you feel about this suave motherfucker?

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#38

When asked to perform a Toast to the Crown, loyal Jacobites should pass their glass over a jug or finger bowl, reaffirming their loyalty to the King Over The Water, and getting it right up the idiot Hanoverian swine, who’ll be none the wiser
#jacchat2019

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#39

Did you know the “royal” palaces didn’t have finger bowls until 1901 for this very reason?

#40

I didn’t! I read about the practice in David Niven’s ‘The Moon’s A Balloon’, he observed fellow officers doing this whilst serving in the Highland Light Infantry in Malta, which he viewed to be childish. Funny and doubtless good-hearted as he was, an establishment lapdog to his very bones, sadly.

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#41

Alright David Walliams

I hate myself

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#42

As a Whig I thoroughly disapprove of this thread.

#43

What you gonna do about it, cancel Christmas?

#44

That was the Puritans.

#45

Did actually go down a Wikipedia rabbit hole a while back reading about various claimants to defunct European monarchies. Fascinating, but very, very weird. Like the claimant to the throne of Albania (son of the late King Zog) who attempted a coup after losing a referendum on restoring the monarchy after the fall of Communism.

#46

The Whig movement loosely descended from the Cromwell’s Roundheads though.

#47

Loosely, yes. Keen on parliamentary supremacy, much less keen on the Church.

#48

I’m going to have to try and find it, but when I was first looking at all this stuff, I found the most fascinating guy, some professor of musical history but who also claims to be the lineal King of some defunct Holy Roman Empire offshoot. It was bizarre.

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#49

Jacobite Jess doing the Lord’s work at Inverness airport
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#50

As well as toasting over the water, Jacobites are also wont to toast “the wee gentleman in the black velvet waistcoast”, meaning the mole, whose hill caused William of Orange’s horse to stumble, breaking Billy’s collar bone and leading to his death.

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#51

Ha! They’re incorrigible!

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#52

I assumed a man from Catholic Spain would welcome to the return to proper Catholicism at the head of Britain?

#53

I did read all about this on Wikipedia recently actually. I came to the conclusion that while Bonny Prince Charlie was all romantic and lovely, it was entirely correct that we didn’t keep the Stuart family in charge so Ahm Oot, sorry.