Royal acting/monster...

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

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From: catlady_de_los_angeles
Subject: Re: Royal acting/monster...
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Date: 6/23/00 8:35 pm  (ET)

> Incidentally, if Chas makes it to King, he'll
> insist we called him King George VII, because
> the previous Kings Charles were all bonkers or
> giant toads

I thought that whoever gives the royals their orders had forbidden
'Charles' as throne name because there would be factions furious at
the number III or the number IV (the former being those who view the
Chevalier de St. George as King and the latter being those who view him
as Young Pretender... was the famous Bonnie Prince Charlier the Young
Pretender or his son?)

Incidentally, do wizards have royals? The same royals as Muggles? I
personally believe that the Ministry of Magic is the entire wizard
government for the island of Britain (it has numerous departments) and
that MoM is not related in any way to the Muggle government (or sovereign)
except for passing word to certain career bureaucrats when necessary. My
friend insists that MoM is part of Her Majesty's Government, with the
Minister of Magic reporting to the Prime Minister (can you *imagine*
leaving something as important as magic to a pair of *politicians*?) and
the MoM getting its budget from a detail line in the 'black budget'
-- I don't know if UK calls it the 'black budget' like US does, but it
is the money appropriated in one lump sum to "all classified national
security purposes".