{"id":3615,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3615"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","slug":"the-kings-and-queens-of-england","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-kings-and-queens-of-england\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kings and Queens of England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Kings and Queens of England<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on February 15, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nNot by me, it&#8217;s traditional!!!<\/p>\n<p>Willy, Willy, Harry, Ste,<br \/>\nHarry, Dick, John, Harry three,<br \/>\nOne, two, three Eds, Richard two,<br \/>\nHenries four, five, six \u2013 then who?<br \/>\nEdwards four, five, Dick the bad,<br \/>\nTwo more Harries, Ned the lad,<br \/>\nMary, Bessie, James the vain,<br \/>\nCharlie, Charlie, James again,<br \/>\nWill and Mary, Anna Gloria,<br \/>\nThen four Georges, William, Victoria,<br \/>\nEdward, George, then Ned the eighth<br \/>\nWho quickly goes and abdicates<br \/>\nThat leaves George, then Liz the second,<br \/>\nWith Charlie next or so it\u2019s reckoned.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s the way our monarchs lie<br \/>\nSince Harold got it in the eye!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nThis is from my memory, something reminded me of it earlier and a friend didn&#8217;t<br \/>\nknow it so I put it here. It is not a quite accurate list there are several two<br \/>\npart reigns during the Wars of the Roses and Matilda (arguably the rightful<br \/>\nQueen rather than Stephen), Louis (French King who ruled here after being<br \/>\ninvited in to get rid of John&#8217;s corruption) Lady Jane Grey (acknowledged as<br \/>\nQueen by Parliament despite her mother being alive who should by the argument<br \/>\nthat made Jane Queen have been Queen instead of Mary) are all missing as are<br \/>\nOliver and Richard Cromwell who were Kings in all but name during the<br \/>\ninterregnum between the Charlies. Also Will and Mary were really succeeded by<br \/>\nWill on his own when Mary died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kings and Queens of England by cricketjeff on February 15, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Not by me, it&#8217;s traditional!!! Willy, Willy, Harry, Ste, Harry, Dick, John, Harry three, One, two, three Eds, Richard two, Henries four, five, six \u2013 then who? Edwards four, five, Dick the bad, Two more Harries, Ned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9742,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3615","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7894,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3615\/revisions\/7894"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}