God Save The Queen. Of heavy immigrant stock as she is, and married to an immigrant.
They are both probably part-black. In fact, no one could believe anything else having seen a portrait of Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, whose features were publicly called "Negroid" at the time, when her ancestry was common knowledge and apparently disturbed nobody. The city of Charlotte in North Carolina is named after her, and it is the seat of Mecklenburg County.
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are also plausibly believed to be descended from Muhammad through various part-Moorish royal lines on the Iberian Peninsula, even if Robert Graves was once ushered away from Her Majesty after he had mentioned their common descent from the Prophet of Islam. The view is widely held in an entirely matter-of-fact way across the Islamic world.
Genghis Khan and the Tang Emperor Suzong are less plausible ancestors, but not impossible ones. Loyalty to the monarchy is nothing if not an inoculation against racism, and not only, although certainly, because the Queen is the Head of the Commonwealth, as well as directly of 16 member-states.
Only four of those 16, including this one, have white majority populations, just as only two of the remaining 14 British Overseas Territories are predominantly white, and only one of those two has a population descended primarily from these Islands, something that Canada and Australia also do not have.
Today ought to be a public holiday throughout the United Kingdom. As should Saint Andrew's Day, Saint David's Day and Saint Patrick's Day. Away with pointless celebrations of the mere fact that the banks are on holiday.
They are both probably part-black. In fact, no one could believe anything else having seen a portrait of Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, whose features were publicly called "Negroid" at the time, when her ancestry was common knowledge and apparently disturbed nobody. The city of Charlotte in North Carolina is named after her, and it is the seat of Mecklenburg County.
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are also plausibly believed to be descended from Muhammad through various part-Moorish royal lines on the Iberian Peninsula, even if Robert Graves was once ushered away from Her Majesty after he had mentioned their common descent from the Prophet of Islam. The view is widely held in an entirely matter-of-fact way across the Islamic world.
Genghis Khan and the Tang Emperor Suzong are less plausible ancestors, but not impossible ones. Loyalty to the monarchy is nothing if not an inoculation against racism, and not only, although certainly, because the Queen is the Head of the Commonwealth, as well as directly of 16 member-states.
Only four of those 16, including this one, have white majority populations, just as only two of the remaining 14 British Overseas Territories are predominantly white, and only one of those two has a population descended primarily from these Islands, something that Canada and Australia also do not have.
Today ought to be a public holiday throughout the United Kingdom. As should Saint Andrew's Day, Saint David's Day and Saint Patrick's Day. Away with pointless celebrations of the mere fact that the banks are on holiday.
It is amazing how many people assume that
because there is a legend about Saint George, then he himself must be a purely
legendary figure. He is not. Although the Tomb of Saint George at his birthplace, which
is now known as Lod and which is the location of Israel's principal airport,
has become a shadow of its former self.
It was once a major focus of unity between
Christians and Muslims in devotion to the Patron Saint of Palestine, Lebanon
and Egypt before, and as much as, the Patron Saint of England. But three quarters of those who practised that
devotion were violently expelled in 1948. On what remains, see here.
If having a legend about you meant you had to be a purely legendary figure, where would that leave David Lindsay?
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