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2010-12-01 Britain

Duke of York under scrutiny in leaked US documents

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Posted by Fred 2010-12-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Sounds like the Duke of York is doing his job just fine. I certainly don't hold his patriotism against him.

Posted by JAB 2010-12-01 00:28|| 2010-12-01 00:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Yep, I rather feel he won't be regretting this being made public.

Apart from AL Grauniad readers, everyone's going to think a bit better of him.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2010-12-01 06:13|| 2010-12-01 06:13|| Front Page Top

#3 This is like Putin finding out he was called an "alpha dog". Yeah, I'm bad!

Posted by Spot 2010-12-01 08:12|| 2010-12-01 08:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Duke of Dork

Posted by Jeremiah Flainter9609 2010-12-01 08:44|| 2010-12-01 08:44|| Front Page Top

#5 Ahhhh Randy Andy & Koo

Those were the days!

Posted by anonymous2u 2010-12-01 11:15|| 2010-12-01 11:15|| Front Page Top

#6 I think of York as "the 'b' team" in case for some reason William doesn't become king.

Someone once suggested that once William ascended, if England was falling apart for whatever reasons, and parliament was ineffectual and bonkers, as is typical, that William could order parliament dissolved, fly to Canada, then declare Andrew as 'Lord Protector' of England, ala Cromwell.

This would place him in charge of the military, what little of it was left, and he could raise a loyal army, then "smite the hell" out of whoever was dragging England down. Little way around it other than mass executions.

It was even suggested that this new army be called "Caledfwlch", which is the Welsh name for Excalibur.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-12-01 13:52|| 2010-12-01 13:52|| Front Page Top

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