Monarchs [was Re: Household Algebra]

On 5/3/24 6:36 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:

Tim Merrigan <tppm@ca.rr.com> wrote:

"Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> wrote:

Your list also skips Jane, teenaged queen for nine days back in
'53.  How can anyone forget her?

 

He also left out Cromwell.

 Evelyn is a she, not a he.  And Cromwell was not a monarch.
Anyhow, there were two ruling Cromwells, Oliver and his son Richard.
(Apparently "Lord Protector," like monarch, is an inherited position.)

For the record, I'm not fussy about my pronouns, and "Evelyn" being gender-neutral, I'm used both to mispronunciation (as "EE-va-lin" rather than "EV-a-lin"), and to random pronouns.
As for not going back a thousand years, I never claimed the poem did, and it skips several "iffy" monarchs (notably Matilda, Eustace, Henry the Young King, Louis the Lion, and Jane).
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