Irn Bru is foul stuff (as is all fizzy juice) only Scottish drink worth fighting over is a decent malt whisky
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Irn Bru is foul stuff (as is all fizzy juice) only Scottish drink worth fighting over is a decent malt whisky
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Sounds like you are culturally English? Love a good malt whisky but not too peaty.Irn Bru is foul stuff (as is all fizzy juice) only Scottish drink worth fighting over is a decent malt whisky
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Smoke and peat for me.
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It makes a le' scotch.
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Not my tipple have mates either side of the border would agree with you, Talisker perhaps?
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The late queen's mother liked gin.
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Gin'n tonic is a most excellent summer beverage! Very refreshing and the ice melts well in it. (Still tastes good if mixed properly when using lots of ice.)
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She was a Scot and drinking gin didn’t count.
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...McSaxe-Coburg and Gotha
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I read some details about the Royal Warrant of Appointment liquor list . They have Canadian whiskey on the list. I believe it is Canadian Club of some unknown vintage.
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Just North of Aberdeen!
I wasn't surprised; I believe that Charles share much of that sense of duty that his mother had. I guessed, rightly at least to his point, that he wouldn't sluff off that duty for the easy life of a rich private person.
Nor is celebrity what it's about. William can and should have public duties, (assuming a modicum of the same sense of duty his grandmother had); perhaps increasingly so given his father is in his '70s. But celebrity of the Royals is mainly a phenomenon of the mass media era; before that Royals were rarely seen in public except for high ceremonial occasions. today celebrity of the Royals seems inevitable and they must acknowledge this.
However ultimately their constitutional role is paramount. Britain, (or Australia or Canada), could become republic but those countries would need, instead, to have presidents to fill a constitutional niche in parliamentary-style democracies. That would solve the celebrity problem for Royals Who is the President of Germany? Who of Israel? Who knows and who cares?
she married into Saxe-Coburg but her family was Scottish going back to at least the 14th century and probably much further.
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I've heard that about 1 in 3 Scotts is Flemish (Dutch or Belgian) in origin...but probably not in this caseshe married into Saxe-Coburg but her family was Scottish going back to at least the 14th century and probably much further.
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'The British line was founded by King Edward VII, eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.'she married into Saxe-Coburg but her family was Scottish going back to at least the 14th century and probably much further.
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Queen Mum was not born of it but married into that line. She was a Bowes-Lyon.
You might want to tone it down a bit.
Fighting talk indeed
, but first we must drink whisky, Dads side is Clan Lamont of Dunoon, after the 1646 massacre at Dunoon where the Campbells slaughtered 200+ they escaped to Galloway and my direct ancestors are noted in the record office as blacksmiths for the Parish of Anworth under Samuel Rutherford (minister) at the time of uprising against Cromwell and against the local lords of Maxwell who were for for King Charles 1st (very apt as dad served his time as blacksmith), mums side is MacInnes of Kintyre (farmer/fishermen) which is a weird circumstance as Clan Lamont and Clan MacInnes were allies with their respective kingdoms close to each other. Mum had her DNA taken a few years ago as part of a Glasgow Uni study into the genealogy of early settlers in Argyll and they found a trace back to 2000BC on the isle of IONA so she has the honour of being able to trace her line back to the original Picts who inhabited the west coast.Unfortunately no noble bloodlines in either family were found but it’s cool to know exactly who your descendants were 500 years ago.
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