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Subject: Re: Baronial Order of the Magna Charta
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1997 08:24:46 -0500

William Addams Reitwiesner wrote:

> (Gvonstud) wrote:
>
> >>A minor point I suppose, but it drives me crazy. King John had no number
> >>in his style, as there has not yet been a King John II. He was just King
> >>John. No one says Queen Victoria I, right?
> >
> >But one does say, for instance, Kaiser Franz Josef I...there is no Kaiser
Franz
> >Josef II, at least not so far...
>
> And Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia.

I guess Austrians and Ethiopians are by nature more optimistic than the British
and
willing to count both unhatched chickens and unenthroned sovereigns.

As I was saying to Kaiser Wilhem III just the other day . . .

John Steele Gordon

This thread:

• Re: Baronial Order of the Magna Charta by "D. Spencer Hines" <>
  • Re: Baronial Order of the Magna Charta by <>
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  • Re: Baronial Order of the Magna Charta by Stewart Baldwin< >
  • Re: Baronial Order of the Magna Charta by MERIKIN< >
  • Re: Baronial Order of the Magna Charta by Gvonstud< >
  • Re: Baronial Order of the Magna Charta by William Addams Reitwiesner< >

  • Re: Baronial Order of the Magna Charta by <>

  • Re: Baronial Order of the Magna Charta by "Robert Saleron" <>
  • Re: Baronial Order of the Magna Charta by <>
  • Re: Baronial Order of the Magna Charta by "William A. Collins" <>