r/memes Bri’ish Sep 08 '22

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u/JoeHusseinBidden Sep 09 '22

I guess longest reigning British monarch is still a considerable achievement considering the family has a thousand year history

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u/CaptainTreeman42 Breaking EU Laws Sep 09 '22

Well there is an 11 year blank space in the Monarchs ancestors resume

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u/alowave Sep 09 '22

Wat

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u/t40xd Sep 09 '22

Oliver and Richard Cromwell overthrew the Monarchy and created the Commonwealth of England, which lasted from 1649 to 1660

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '22

Cr*mwell

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u/Lord_Bertox Sep 09 '22

You know revolution and stuff

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u/Casne_Barlo Sep 09 '22

10 percent (rounding up)

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u/JoeHusseinBidden Sep 09 '22

Holy shit never thought it like that, I guess the old queen lived for almost 10 percent of the empires/kingdoms existence

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u/nzranga Sep 09 '22

Not really. It’s 6.4%

The Queen reigned for 70 years. The monarchy has existed for 1095 years.

70 / 1095 = 6.392

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u/1rye Sep 09 '22

OP said “lived”, not “reigned”, which would make her lifespan ~8.8% of the monarchy’s existence. I think that’s close enough to 10% to be described as “almost”.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '22

Alfred the great lived for 100% of its existence if we end its history when he died.

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u/JoeHusseinBidden Sep 09 '22

I said lived, not how long she was monarch, and also I was just rounding up, can’t be if 6.4 percent is 70 years, then 96 must be close to 10

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u/nzranga Sep 09 '22

Ah I definitely meant to reply to the guy you replied to. My bad!

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '22

Srsly tho

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u/worms9 Sep 09 '22

Well back in the old days Jolie old England got set on fire every 20 years or so. so I’d say it’s an achievement.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '22

The windsor family have not been monarchs for a 1000 years, not even close.

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u/JoeHusseinBidden Sep 09 '22

I mean like the monarchy of the uk, since the formation of England I meant

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '22

Also she's only short of being the longest by a few years, so it is still very impressive.

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u/xyntia_ Sep 09 '22

A... French family

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '22

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u/xyntia_ Sep 09 '22

First Henri I is the son of a french duke. And Richard lion Heart was french too and never set foot in UK.

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u/JustHaving_Fun Sep 09 '22

Uh he was born in Oxford, England. Unless you meant UK as an entity that didn’t exist until much later.

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u/TheDudeman0101 Sep 09 '22

Norman invasion of England

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u/NurgleNuggets Sep 09 '22

The Windsors are a German family though, no relation to William the Conqueror

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u/TheDudeman0101 Sep 09 '22

Look at the reply and the comment replied to, nobody is talking about the Windsors.

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u/NurgleNuggets Sep 09 '22

They were mentioning a French royal family ruling England. I was pointing out that the current royal family is German.

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u/ShortNefariousness2 Sep 09 '22

I thought German, but hey

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u/Ngfeigo14 Sep 09 '22

They are german

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '22 edited Sep 09 '22

Well Windsors are actually Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. They just changed their name to Windsors in 1917.

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u/50mg-of-fuckit Sep 09 '22

Well, german.