What's happening in your world?

[redchild]

Oops, I've just realised I included a fairly significant spoiler in my second last post...sorry!

*belly laughs* Oh, redchild, a big hug to you from across the Pacific!!

Pretty much all I've been thinking about since making my first post is, "What's redchild going to have to say about this when she gets back here, and how am I going to justify myself when I respond to her response?"

Look like you had a good idea of what I think already

I just don't know, but I was definitely viewing the whole spectacle with RotE-clouded glasses on! A tiny example of this would be when the carriages began making their way back to Buckingham Palace and they got me thinking about the spectacle that would have taken place when some royal characters went through the various places within the Six Duchies, and how the 'commoners' and people of the court would have felt regarding the news of marriage in the midst of strife. Charles and Camiila there together got me thinking about the conspiracy theories of Diana being done away with via an assassination hit that mirrors the plottings of two assassins very well known to most of us. Even marrying a commoner or for love, rather than political/social ties, is a theme that is matched.

I wonder if such intrigues within the royal family are even relevant anymore. I suppose it would since they are essentially the public face of the government and no doubt they still have political pull in Parliament. I acknowledge that many people still feel a strong nostalgic attachment to the notion of royalty and nobility and no doubt, they certainly have influence over public opinion. I hope feudalism doesn't come back in fashion, though.

Still, it amazes me that we immerse ourselves in the 'royalness' in the pages of books and yet we have it all right here in real life, 'current' life even, and not just as part of our long-forgotten history...even more amazing that I used to have to sing "God Save the Queen" every morning on Parade as a child. That just boggles my mind that I was, and am still, a "subject" of the realm...

It is funny how anything beyond a few decades seems like ancient history, or even mythology to most people. It's very difficult to remember that the things in the past still influence how things are in the present. I suppose the RotE dragons have a leg up on that.

It boggles my mind even more when it turns out that young children from China know more about US government, history, and geography than the average American adult.

Which makes me think of a lady from the US who was having a great time in London and thrilled to be a part of it all. She said something like, "Well, we have no royalty of our own so it's great to be able to come along and join in with everyone else." I couldn't help but have a chuckle over the fact that I thought the goal of independence was to no longer have that connection to the crown. Bingtown = the US in a sort of fashion?

There is definitely royalty in the US in the form of: the current and former Presidents and their families, A-list Hollywood, and CEO's of major corporations. The only difference is, you can buy your way into high society in addition to maneuvering and/or marrying into powerful, elite families. And the real aim of American independence from British rule was enterprise and profit, not that "no representation" nonsense. So I suppose the US is a lot like Bingtown in that respect

These beings have come across Americans that when coloring a US map, put ocean on all sides...

WOW I live on an is-land?!