2 world wars, 1 world cupRoyal JellySpaceCruiserRoyal JellyrabidbeeRoyal Jelly Sorry to get technical here, but its incorrect to say that the English owned parts of france, or (as some would have you beleive) that the English Monarch has a claim to the french thrown, as it was actually the Normans who invaded and took over England.
If anything the current British head of state come from a line of monarchs who can tenuously be traced back to being French (with a large helping of German recently), so we're still be run by France (sorry spacey).
I've run out of essays to fail, so I'll mark your work instead.
The English/British monarchs claimed the French throne from the 14th century, and only dropped the claim in the reign of George III (when it was a little embarrassing because we were sheltering the exiled French "king", Louis XVII. The claim has nothing to do with the Norman conquest; rather, it depended on differing interpretations of the French laws of succession (although Edward III was really just looking for a fight, anyway). And the last "Frenchman" to take the English throne was Henry II, in the 12th century; just how long to does your family have to live here to be naturalised?! (We're straying into Daily Mail territory again!)
surely by the point the English Monarchs claimed the throne the whole ruling class was French anyway, and most of them spoke the language.
Either way, can't you just go along with it to upset Spacey, as he's clearly Raci.... erm, I mean xenophobic.
No he can't because you were clearly wrong in the first place. Moron.
snigger, snigger......
I think that worked well
My mistake - go to the last page to see who the new signing is (still don't know, at the time of writing this!) to see the thread descend into another episode of "Spacey vs the French". Still.... here's my 2 penny's worth: the Normans weren't actually French they were from Scandinavian background who had colonised northern France. As we British are largely Scandinavian by background too they were probably racially closer to the rest of England than to the French anyway.
So to add my bit...
William had a stronger claim to the British throne than Harold ever did. The Normans were indeed from Scandinavia and like the Saxons before them were pushing westward to escape the fiercer clans coming out of the Steppes (spelling!).
Needless to say most Britain’s contain a far higher quantity of Danish blood than either Norman or Saxon, as a couple of century’s after the Norman invasion we were damn nearly conquered by the Danes (see Alfred the Great for details on amazing resistance, gave up the whole country bar Wessex)!
However, a question for Spacey;
As the French all but wiped out their own aristocracy and royal family doesn’t that mean that our blood ties to it are gone and we no longer have a claim or that it is ours and there are just a bunch of filthy cheese eating surrender monkey peasants squatting on it?
Glad we signed this Cisse bloke all the same!
