News This Week

These "No Kings" protests across America only confirm that Donald Trump is really a king. It wouldn't make sense to have these protests if he wasn't really a king. The protests are effectively his coronation ceremony. Kings today are explained in "The Theory Of Kings", www.markmeeksideas.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-theory-of-kings_28.html?m=0 The reason for kings and dictators is that people, in general, have difficulty handling freedom. If everyone could really handle freedom then there would be no such thing as a king or a dictator. If you don't want to be ruled by a king then here is a link to what freedom is all about: www.markmeeksideas.blogspot.com/2025/07/happy-freedom-week.html?m=0

Does anyone notice the irony that there was a deadly explosion in a Tennessee munitions factory right around the time that the Nobel Peace Prize was being awarded? High explosives, such as dynamite, have made wars exponentially more lethal. Bullets and shells are propelled by low explosives, such as gunpowder, but the warheads of artillery shells are packed with high explosives. High explosives are not used as propellant because it could blast the gun apart. Can you believe that dynamite was invented by the originator of the Nobel Peace Prize?

Do New Yorkers know what happened the last time there was a King Charles and his brother held the title of Duke of York? It was Charles II and he gave his brother some lands in newly-explored North America, and this is where the name of New York came from. This also applies to Toronto, of which the original name was York.

THE POSSIBILITY OF ROYAL CADET BRANCHES 

With all the news about Prince Andrew this week, he still has an option that I haven't seen mentioned. When I was a young boy my parents showed me an article about a royal boy the same age as me. The Queen had a son named Andrew. The next I recalled seeing about him was when he sprayed paint on people during a visit to Los Angeles, and thought it was funny. 

But what about cadet branches? These are junior branches of a royal line that sometimes manage to get into power. The former French monarchy is more associated with cadet branches than Britain, but it was a civil war between two cadet branches of England's House of Plantagenet that ended that dynasty and brought in the Tudors. These branches were the House of Lancaster and the House of York and, since both had a rose as their symbol, the conflict was known as the War of the Roses. 

A well-known French cadet branch was the House of Guise. It never held royal power in France but one of it's princesses, Mary of Guise, became Queen of Scotland by marriage. The French Bourbon Dynasty was overthrown in the French Revolution but was restored after the time of Napoleon. It was it's cadet branch, the House of Orleans, that held power when the monarchy was finished for good by the wave of revolutions that swept Europe in 1848. The next county from here is named for the House of Orleans.

So what is stopping Andrew or Harry from setting up a cadet branch and then promoting themselves on social media? The British Government has a "shadow government", of the opposition party that is out of power, so why couldn't it have a royal cadet branch?