Posted by Charles Harper --Previous Message--
on 21/5/2007, 7:49:35, in reply to "Re: Something in common?"
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I'd like your opinion on this. Could Elizabeth the Second of the United Kingdom join that list? Is she not the first Queen Elizabeth of Scotland?
: Bingo !
: Congratulations to René and Alpha for
: finding the persons and to Alpha for
: spotting the link.
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: --Previous Message--
: Could it be that all these sovereigns
: reigned
: over more than one country/empire and have
: been known by more than one regnal number?
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: 1. Emperor Charles V = King Carlos I of
: Spain
: 2. Emperor Pedro I of Brazil = Pedro IV of
: Portugal
: 3. King James II of England = James VII,
: King of Scots
: 4. King Felipe II of Spain = King Felipe I
: of Portugal
: 5. Emperor Karl I of Austria-Hungary = King
: Károly IV of Hungary
: 6. Emperor Franz I of Austria-Hungary =
: Franz II, Holy Roman Emperor
: 7. King Carl XIV Johan of Sweden = Karl III
: Johan of Norway
: 8. King James I of England = James VI, King
: of Scots
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: --Previous Message--
: 1. My mother was nut as a cracker.
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: 2. I rebelled against my father and founded
: an independent country
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: 3. My daughters rebelled against me and I
: lost my throne.
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: 4. My father is in this board. He left me
: half of his heirloom, but I got myself a
: bigger one than he ever had.
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: 5. I succeeded my grand-uncle but I was
: deposed and died in exile in the middle of
: the Atlantic.
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: 6. I was an Emperor. Two of my daughters
: were married to Emperors.
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: 7. I was a general. I was offered a throne.
: I accepted it.
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: 8. My mother was beheaded. She had her eye
: on a throne that I eventually inherited.
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: Who are we, and what do we have in common ?
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