Re: CHAT: browsers

On Wednesday 12 February 2003 06:10 am, you wrote:
> > I have no idea. If it were up to me, I'd make it all correct. If
> > something is correct, whether I like it or not, I obey it (unless it's
> > incredibly stupid/dangerous etc). Thus, unlike many of my fellow
> > republicans, I refer to Her Majesty as Queen Elizabeth II of Australia
> > (which is just below the point of 'incredibly stupid', because we've
> > never had a Queen Elizabeth I), and not Mrs Windsor. (Personally, I
> > think if she's going to be our queen, should be the queen of the people;
> > she's Queen Elizabeth I of Scots or somesuch, why can't she be Queen
> > Elizabeth I of Australians? But then, we might as well just become a
> > republic...)
>
> No, she's Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Well, she's certainly not the Queen of the Channel Islands - just to throw a
pointless factoid in - she's the Duchess of Normandy, and Jersey, Guernsey
and the other one are the sole remaining loyalists - the mainland Normandy is
successionist of course, and has been for the last few hundred years  ;)

Nor is she the Queen of Manx either - that's a state in free association,
unless I'm mistaken.

Wesley Parish

>
> > (BTW: Republican obviously has a different meaning in Australia
> > (favoring changing Australia into an independent republic with our own
> > head of state, rather than a foreigner) and America (follower of the
> > Republican party). Less obviously, though, in America, 'Republic' seems
> > to mean 'representative democracy' (i.e. you vote for people who
> > represent you in Government, as in the current system in both America
> > and Australia), whereas in Australia it has to do with having your own
> > head of state (certainly not for life, but not necessarily elected, and
> > not necessarily with any power).)
>
> Republican in England, on the other hand, means removing the Monarchy,  and
> in N. Ireland, it means reunification with the Republic of Ireland
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