Queen Beatrix Of The Netherlands To Abdicate.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22348160

[humbersloop]

yes

and?

[sunny-dave]

Ruud Gullit is next King ?

[EDDIE51]

I think our Queen is hoping to outlive Charles so as to prevent a 'Queen Camilla'

[Brenden]

So am I Eddie.

[Baldric]

Queen Camilla ?
It's just wouldn't be right, would it?

[anneasquith]

good idea..........makes sense, see daily mail. some lovely frocks at the 'do'

[humbersloop]

^^^^I'd vote for Ruud Gullit

[Gromit]

This has been planned for a long time, and announced ages ago.

If our Queen is still healthy and can still do the job, why should she do the same. We do not really have a tradition of our monarch abdicating, and that one was seen as letting the country down. Our monarch die (or are killed) in office.

The Queen should go on like Victoria did, Charles may get a bit of a go like Edward VII did.

[andy-hughes]

Is there a reason for your post AOG?

[anotheoldgit]

What is wrong with Camila, I think she would make an ideal Queen, and Charles king, but then I don't think some would agree in this image concious world.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/04/29/article-2316740-198BC156000005DC-410_964x1083.jpg

[Baldric]

Thank goodness Stamps are now self-adhesive,
I really would not want to lick the back of Camillas neck every time I posted a letter!

[AB Editor]

Charlie is happy:

https://twitter.com/Charles_HRH/status/329143917276700674

[anotheoldgit]

andy-hughes

/// Is there a reason for your post AOG? ///

Is this not the news topic section?

Thought it best not to make a comment just to see how the usual suspects react when there is nothing on the bone to chew on.

humbersloop and Yourself , didn't fail to take the bait.

[LazyGun]

@ AB Editor LoL @ the thought of Charlie twittering :)

#whenisitgoingtobemyturnmummy?

[anneasquith]

is that a puppet working wee charlies arm ?

[anotheoldgit]

AB Editor

So that is twitter is it Ed? I think I will stick to AnswerBank, at least it seems a little more mature at times.

[jim360]

I hardly see the problem with posting a news story. I've been aware of this for some time, but it's still "news" as it started today.

Both the Netherlands and the UK have, I think, examples of royalty "done right", but in different ways.

[mikey4444]

I can't think of any good reason why there shouldn't be a Queen Camilla, apart from blind prejudice, or bigotry. What difference does it make anyway, who is on the throne ? It will be a non-elected, unrepresentative individual that we will have no choice over.

While I think that our present Queen has done a sterling job for the last few years, we won't get a say in who replaces her, whether its Charles or perhaps his first born. A future King or Queen is just about to be born this summer !

Imagine if Tony Blair or Dave Cameron, or, God help us, Maggie had said that they liked the job so much, that they were going to stay in it until they died and then pass it over to one of their relatives, whoever that was ?

Why isn't Britain a full democracy ?

[sunny-dave]

Because we're proles and plebs and should know our place, Mikey ...

... I'm off to find a member of the aristocracy to doff my cap to and possibly pull my forelock later.

[LazyGun]

I have always thought that tugging your forelock in a public place should probably be some sort of offence :)