Prince Charles says he is tired of waiting to beomce King..........

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Its a general problem in modern monarchies. The inheritance customs where developed in a totally different age where Kings died much earllier, often in battle. They should implement a retirement age at 70 or make it mandatory to skip a generation, so the middle generation could have a civilian carreer. But both things are extremely difficult to implement.

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The reign of George VII will last 10 years tops. William the IV (assuming he keeps the name) will be on the throne for 30-40 years starting in the late 2020's. So it won't be all that bad for the British people .

Are you sure about George VII. Why not Charles III? Too Stuart?

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He could always lead the fight for Welsh independence and rule as King Siarl I of Cymru.

Or become Charles IV of Scotland after the referendum.

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He could always lead the fight for Welsh independence and rule as King Siarl I of Cymru.

Or become Charles IV of Scotland after the referendum.

If Scotland recognized the Jacobite secession and then for some reason switched over to him, he'd be Charles V, not the IV.  However, in the unlikely event that Scotland chose to invite the Jacobite line back, they certainly won't put Charles on the throne, but Francis II. (Assuming the current Duke of Bavaria is still alive by then - Francis is older than Charles, but younger than Elizabeth II.)  

Who would be Charles IV then? Bonnie Prince Charles was no. 3 and no Stuart claimed the Scottish throne after his brother Henry IX.

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It's safe to say that his reign will be a lot shorter than his mother's.

Considering how long Queen Mom lived, his mother may very well outlife him.

Let's hope so. Useless twit.

Yes let hope the British queen see one of her children in the grave before her. Useless psychopath.

Hardly a big deal if they're both very old. Totally different from a parent burying a young child.

Pretty tasteless comment. If you are a 100 years old and your son is 75, you will not concider him "very old" and it is always painfull for a mother to lose a child, no matter the age.

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The reign of George VII will last 10 years tops. William the IV (assuming he keeps the name) will be on the throne for 30-40 years starting in the late 2020's. So it won't be all that bad for the British people .

Are you sure about George VII. Why not Charles III? Too Stuart?

Stuart=Catholic, so yep .

Lewis checked that issue (see earlier in the thread). His own staff denies the George VII thing.

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Who would be Charles IV then? Bonnie Prince Charles was no. 3 and no Stuart claimed the Scottish throne after his brother Henry IX.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobite_succession

While he never bothered to actively pursue the matter, Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia was considered by the Jacobites to be Henry IX's heir, Charles IV.  I suppose a case could be made that the abdication he made of the Sardinian throne in 1802 after his wife's death in favor of his brother also included the Jacobite claims he inherited in 1809 from Henry IX.

I think the relevant fact here is that none of the Jacobite heirs since the death of Henry IX actually claimed the thrones Scotland and England or even incorporated the arms of England and Scotland in their coats-of-arms. So they wouldnt count as actual Kings of Scotland.
In my hypothetical scenario Prince Charles would be no. 4.

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Discussing British royal family ought to become a bannable offense.

You are just jealous because you don't have a Polish royal family