Bucklebury Headmistress - Shame!

[lynbrown]

On Sky news, we have just watched the headmistress of Bucklebury Primary School tell all her pupils that the new royal baby will grow up to be the King of England. She repeated it again in an interview. How can she be so ignorant? What about the Welsh, the Scots, the Northern Irish? He will be their king too. It's enough to make me vote YES in next years referendum.

[ToraToraTora]

don't get in flap, I doubt she mentioned all the other nations that he'll be the King of either.

[elliemay1]

The poor woman will never live this down!

[douglas9401]

"How can she be so ignorant?"

Years of superiority complex and an introverted world view.

[Peter Pedant]

you can always pop off a post card....
there would of course only be one primary skool


I agree she is paid to know the difference between England and the United Kingdom

[pixie373]

She is right. She just hasn't elaborated. Maybe the school is in England and so that's why she said it that way. A Scottish teacher telling a class he will be King of Scotland one day, would be equally correct.

[Baldric]

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Current-Affairs/Question1261669.html

[Peter Pedant]

3T Elizabeth is not queen of england - she is Queen of the United Kingdom

Just as Elizabeth I was Queen of England and her immediate successor James VI and I was King of Great Britain

Teachers are paid to know this sort of thing

[jno]

he'll be king of Australia too, I'm astounded she didn't mention it. What is the world coming to?

[elliemay1]

Do I detect a note of sarcasm, jno??

[ToraToraTora]

get those chunks of 4x2 off your shoulders. She said he'd be king of England, not only England. Should she have gone through this lot:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_headed_by_Elizabeth_II

[jno]

on behalf of Australians everywhere I am outraged, elliemay!

Something should be done.

[Mass_Hysteria]

They'll probably have forgotten about this when ??? gets to be King of wherever in approx 2090

[elliemay1]

I agree, jno. Maybe we should start a campaign.

[THECORBYLOON]

Ah, but will he be King of Australia? It may be a Republic by the time he gets to the throne. There was also a BBC reporter who kept saying the wee one would be the forty-third monarch since William the Conqueror, ignoring completely, Scots monarchs. Is the first B of BBC, British or Biased?

[neodarwinian]

By the time this baby ascends the throne he may be only the King of England!

[grumpy01]

Well said Tora

[Barmaid]

I shall be outraged on behalf of the people of Papua New Guinea.

Headmistress was a bit daft, but nothing really turns on it. I did history at A level and hated the syllabus, but 95% of what I know about our history is self taught because I love it.

After all the rhetoric and nonsense which has been broadcast over the last 2 days, this is a mere drop in the ocean.

[grumpy01]

UK and the Commonwealth PP

[Wharton]

In any case, shouldn't Lizzie II be Lizzie I? I don't recall a Lizzie I of the UK.

[jno]

very true, Wharton. Elizabeth I and II, like James I and VI.