Our king charles

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Cappy.
The trouble is they used to make those good Welsh halfbacks down the mines, the dastardly English closed the mines for that reason, note that since then the English you know are doing a lot better at the game that was conceived in heaven to keep the Welsh happy.
Des
Ps. How is the boy going these days?

[cappy]

The boy is doing fine des......thanks for asking .......player of the year last year and star player this year ......he keeps me going out in the cold travelling to matches .....they say the young are not what we were ....but he does a ten hour day in our family busines .....then travels up to an hour and a half to training and same back two nights .....then plays saturday ......he would have made a good seaman on proper trampers ...but as for the wales RUFC all are swings and roundabouts ......rugby is having a hard time but will steady and come again .....bad weather never lasts forever......keep well R683532 CAPPY

[Mo Docherty]

not my king

[Jimmy Hillman]

Of course he's not our King, last British king we had was Charles 2nd. He fled to France when he heard William of Orange was coming over with an army to take over. Guess who financed him, the same people who financed Oliver Cromwell from Holland when they fled Spain and William the Conqueror long before that.
William married his daughter Mary and the first thing he did was set up the bank of England in the City of London, a separate City state like the vatican and Washington DC. He borrowed money from the Bank with which to invade Ireland and increase the national debt, all in the name of keeping us from Popery like Cromwell did and sold Irish land to the City, not England. The German Georgians took over and increased the debt with more unpopular wars. Queen Victoria traced the family back to King David, Charlie went one better and traced it back to Abraham...

[Jimmy Hillman]

Just in case anyone's wondering, the City of London is the square mile where all the world's banks are. Londinium, fortified by the Romans and refortified by William the Conqueror who never took it. What he did is grant them special Charters in repayment for the loan which still remain in place. The City pays no tax on financial transactions, only the people who work there do. The City of London police are not Metropolitan police, they're a private police force and the Monarch is the Lord mayor of London, not the London mayor. The British Monarch has to ask permission to enter the state and follows behind the Lord Mayor, this is granted by the offering of the hilt of a sword which the British Monarch has to grasp

[j.sabourn]

The sign of accepting the hilt of the sword is confirmation that the receiver accepts the homage he is being paid. I have 2 swords and I often pass them hand to hand so I offer and accept homage from myself to myself. I am definetley bigoted towards myself. ? Cheers JS

[j.sabourn]

#95 he also has to ask permission to enter the Houses of Parliament . JS

[jim halligan]

King Charles.jpg

While working for the B&C Company between 1970 and 80, always wondered how quick the name would be changed to the 80,000t Spanish built bulk carrier bearing his name and registered in London.
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[vic mcclymont]

The Bank of England was founded in 1694, by a Scott, William Patterson.
Vic

[Des Taff Jenkins]

There you go Vic, Scottish money and Welsh archers, how the devil did the English survive.
Des