> On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, John Hughes wrote:
>
> > And at higher levels, succession is an instrument of politics,
and will
> > *always* be abused. Who's the proper ruler of Britain then? Any
Scots out
> > there? :)
>
> Er, me. (Sitting in Glasgow.) Seriously, Britain is a representative
> democracy, and while the royals (more Scots than anything else
> anyway)
A bunch of Greeks & Germans imported to improve the bloodline.
Princess Anne's OK though, at least she knows all the words to
'Flower of Scotland'... more than most of us do (sitting in Greenock)
:)
Wulf