The Royal Wedding and the Bank Account

[Geoff]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "pengolodh_sc" <pengolodh_sc at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter, "Geoff" wrote:
> > --- In HPFGU-OTChatter, Shaun Hately wrote:
> [snip]
> > Shaun: 
> > > Edward, by the way is an Earl rather than a Duke as
> > > the son of a Monarch would normally become on
> > > marriage because he has been designated to become
> > > Duke of Edinburgh on the death of his father 
> > 
> > Geoff:
> > Don't you mean on the death of his grandfather?

Christian: 
> Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex is the son of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Edward's grandfathers were King George VI of the United Kingdom and Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, who died in respectively 1952 and 1944, years before Prince Edward was born.

Geoff:
My apologies. For a moment, I was thinking of Prince William in error. Prince 
Edward is the fourth child of the Queen, born in 1964. I shall find a suitable 
wall to bang my head against.
:-(

I am fully aware of his grandfathers. I remember very clearly hearing of the 
death of King George VI - I was in my First Year at senior school in my 
classroom at lunchtime on 6th February 1952 when the news came through 
and I also went to the lying-in-state at Westminster.