The William (Ish) Era

[bednobs]

when/if willaim becomes king, what will his era be called (ie elizabethan, georgan etc)

[mrs_overall]

I think we will all be known as Silly Billys

[cupid04]

Willies, lol!

[craft1948]

Will.I.am

[DJHawkes]

it will still be the house of windsor. we don't call our current era elizabethan at all. i've heard it called the second elizabethan era but that's never formal is it? we refer to the tudor period and the norman kings, so it will be the windsor period i suppose. can't see it stopping being the windsor period for several generations myself.

[DJHawkes]

i'm in sensible mood this morning, lol

[Zeuhl]

Is he going to be King William?

I thought he might opt for something else as his father plans (planned?) to do

[Zeuhl]

/this morning/

not that sensible obviously :-)

[DJHawkes]

just another point, the reign of william and mary is reffered to as 'william and mary period' and so it may be 'william and kate' anyway.

[jno]

his father doesn't think the previous Charleses set a very good example. But the Williams have generally been okay (though two of the four were apparently gay, which is statistically unusual).

[jno]

Dot, that's because Mary was queen in her own right, wasn't it? Kate's not going to be.

[DJHawkes]

sorry zeuhl, only got up at 1.30, these tablets make me sleep alot. : )

[friedgreentomato]

According to an expert of Radio 2 the other day we take the latin translation of charles and william - but it will all come under the house of windsor

[Peter Pedant]

start a society for needed adjectives

isnt the adjective for Chuck, Carolean ?
Little used - apparently makes sense in dray-ma for the plays of the period Charles i 1625 - 49 - esp those with an abrupt ending....

and Prince Billy - wilhelmine - I have never heard furniture 1830-7 described thus altho er I collect it.

Anne is always used as a noun.


Sometimes nouns (surnames) are used as nouns-in-apposition
which just means strung along to you and me
(Clarendon Code, never Clarendonian Code)

Z

They can choose really whatever name to reign, they want
King Ollie is out.
I thought Charlie boy was long resigned to be Charles III

David became Edward VIII and his brother Bertie (Albert) ... George VI

While I am here - I must recount this (old one - but give it another outing)
Someone met an important lady at a party / levee in 1937 and said
He: oh hello
She: oh Hello
He Are you well ? She: Oh yes very thank you. He Oh
He Um, your brother - he's well ? She: he's very well thank you
He Your brother, what's he doing now ?
She: Oh, he's still King.

names ..... easy to forget

[janbee]

The Billian era?

[janbee]

The Billian Era will be known by it's furniture by IKEA and fashion by Primark.

[Dee Sa]

what is Big Ears going to be called when he eventually gets the crown ?

[jno]

whatever he wants. I believe he's thought about Arthur, which is his thrid name, but I think calling himself King Arthur would only make people laugh