Honestly, the whole British monarchy thing is fairly complicated and foreign to most Americans. Many of us just can't wrap our heads around such an outdated concept like a ruling monarchy.
But amidst all the chaos, PJ Media's Stephen Green has a fascinating and compelling theory about Prince William and his path to the English throne. It's anything but simple.
From PJ Media:
Not tonight but, maybe someday soon, the United Kingdom is gonna party like it's 1689.
As a small-r republican and a capital-A American down to my marrow, I don't have much use for the British Royal Family. I don't usually see anything about them aside from headlines in the Daily Mail during my morning scroll through lingerie-clad celebrities.
It's also true that I don't understand much how these royal lineages work. I get that the first-born royal becomes the Prince or Princess of Wales on their way to ascending the throne. Do I remember correctly that Philip could only be a prince because Queen Elizabeth was a woman, but that Camilla gets to be Queen because King Charles is a dude? I'm pretty sure, but by the time you get any further down — the Seventh Duke of Cumbersome, Lord Sumsuch of Thingy — I can't make myself care any longer. So if I get any of the details wrong, please don't explain them.
I also know that it's impossible to know anything for sure because since parliamentary supremacy was established more than three centuries ago, an Act of Parliament could change everything. Parliament could decide tomorrow that the next King-Queen must be a non-binary demitheist of color, and suddenly countless royals would be jockeying for position by undergoing surgeries and injections.
I'm not so ignorant that I can't smell when something fishy is going on.
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