>>>>>>>>>SNIP
>>>>>>>>>>If you have a place in London you might want to take that trip abroad and sublet it for the time of the festivities.
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>>>>>>>>>That's not a bad idea. They could do a house swap for a week with folks from another country...just be sure to pick a family to swap with who lives in a place you'd want to stay in and in a city or area that you want to visit. :o)
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>>>>>>>>Great idea.
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>>>>>>>>If they could tie theer wedding in with one of the Bushes getting hitched I could go and watch your royalty while you come and watch ours.
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>>>>>>>"If you show me yours...". Grownups, tsk tsk...
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>>>>>>You're just jealous because the Serbian royal family seems to have run out in the 15th century according to wikipedia.
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>>>>>That's the first dynasty (if we don't count the Mrnjavčevići [Мрњавчевићи], which can only be transliterated as McMeouws) of Nemanjić (Немањић - the McHavenots, or McNotSmaller, depending on the chosen amateurish etymology). Then in XIX century there was the dynasty of Karađorđević (Карађорђевић - after the founder, Karađorđe (black George) Petrović), which were then banished and replaced by the Obrenović dynasty, then their fortunes changed places again. And the king did run out, literally, when Hitler hit, taking the whole treasury with all the gold. Well, you know where that ended - the birth of a prince in a hotel in London, and the whole dynasty being in exile for the next 45 years or so (and rightfully so, I think).
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>>>>>The only nice thing I can say is that at least they were homegrown, not imported ;). (1:1, eh?
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>>>>Our monarchy is always an import.
>>>>Before the Germans it was the French with William the conqueror.
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>>>Never American though (that requires abdicating) :o) Of course, if it was an American it could be German, Italian, Polish, Mexican, Canadian, English, Serbian, Bosnian, Chinese, Puerto Rican, Bolivian, Irish....
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>>Not native American then. :-)
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>I couldn't list all of them :o) Most have some "native American" in them as well (like me).... I have cousins who are pure native american and live on the res but they would never be considered across the pond I'm sure :o)
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>Besides, even our "native americans" are not native to this country - only the generations since they migrated here :o)

They're really Russians aren't they /