HRH at Greenville Games

[McClef]

I have found the discussions quite riveting and helpful in understanding the whole thing.

Not that I understand it yet, but after a few more readings, I think I will.

I appreciate your expertise, gentlemen, and I appreciate your sharing it.

I am not in the least bored by it, even though it has no impact on my life.

I second TheScot's comments; I've found this fascinating. Thanks to MoR and McClef for taking the time to share their knowledge. For those of us who are not as savvy as others, are there any books we could be directed to that deal with this topic?

Laurie

Well MOR we might have more fans than we realised!

MOR is a much greater authority on heraldry than I am so I will leave it to him to recommend reading materials from his main POV. I approach things more historically I would say but it's difficult to reccomend any one book that would cover everything. And with the resources available on the internet it might be better to research individual monarchs - Wiki has some very good short articles with plenty of connecting links on all of them. Perhaps a good starting point might well be the Monarch with whom the US parted company - George III and his numerous progeny, two of whom became monarchs but neither of them producing a legitimate heir or one who survived long enough to inherit the throne. How the long odds of the only daughter of a fourth son became the winner with Queen Victoria who in her turn produced numerous progeny and how the practice of male preference primogeniture denied the throne to her eldest child. It will give a better understanding on how the British Monarchy has survived and adapted and how the British system works.

It's almost like a dynastic soap opera with interesting characters and triumphs and tragedies and you may find some that you would like to read deeper on - there are bound to be some in US libraries, so it need not cost a fortune. One can also pick up things about their love of Scotland and the wearing of kilts from George IV to the current Duke of Rothesay and how they set the fashions that encouraged the restoration of tartan and the kilt.

And I am sure that MOR and myself will be happy to try to answer any questions though we might not always agree on the answers!