Trego's Mountain Ear

The Brits seem to have started their own “no kings” movement. Personally, I think they did better with a queen – either Elizabeth seems to have done a solid job. But with Prince Harry and Prince Andrew both losing the title, it looks like the un-beheaded King Charles (so described as to avoid confusion with his beheaded predecessor Charles I) is running his own “no kings” program.

Both former prince Harry and Former prince Andrew, by all reports, were competent, well-regarded junior officers, one in Afghanistan and the other in the Falkland Islands. On the other hand, Queen Elizabeth (then Princess) trained as a mechanic and driver. While that sounds like an enlisted job, she was commissioned. Still, it may be significant that the lady did have vocational skills.

Now the first (beheaded) King Charles basically started the United Kingdom’s ‘No Kings’ movement – his problems with parliament started when he took over the job as king (1625) and ended when he was beheaded in 1649. Since his successor was a guy named Oliver Cromwell, I suppose you might say King Charles I and Oliver Cromwell basically started the ‘No Kings’ movement for the English-speaking world. And now Charles III is getting rid of spare princes.

As I look at King Charles (any of the three) and Queen Elizabeth (either of the two) I can’t help but believe the queens both did better jobs than the Kings. No princes may be a good step toward ‘No Kings’.